Hi Hanlie, If you remove the try/except, do you get some exception?
2011/7/29, Scott Sinclair <[email protected]>: > On 29 July 2011 12:45, Hanlie Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: >> I need to read and process hundreds of GSMaP binary files that are in the >> .gz archive format. >> >> [output] >> done with f1 >> Text to test gzip module. >> done with f2 >> [/output] >> >> This seems to indicate that something is wrong with f1 (the GSMaP >> file), but I can unzip the file manually and read it with a python >> script (code and output pasted after signature). I have hundreds of >> GSMAP files that have unique archived file names, but they all unzip >> to the same binary file, so I have to process the archived files in >> the python script. > > Doesn't it work if you modify part of your pasted script as below? > > # read binary file and store its data in an array > fp = 'C:\\out.00' > tmpfile = open(fp, 'rb') > > Change to (untested): > > # read binary file and store its data in an array > f1 = 'GSMaP_MVK+.20050101.00.0.1deg.hourly.v484.gz' > tmpfile = gzip.open(f1) > > You could also simplify your code by using np.fromfile(tmpfile) to > read the binary data. > > Cheers, > Scott >
