On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:01:00PM +0000, Ximin Luo wrote: > Bill Allombert: > Hi all, > > Sorry I only just briefly scanned through the thread now. However I > found this post relating to gzip, pipes and python: > > https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/02/a-very-subtle-bug/ > > which summarises the bug report here: https://bugs.python.org/issue1652
Yes, this is exactly the problem, and it seems it has been fixed in python 3, but not in python 2.7. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.