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source of python-wstools has two corrupt .gz files in Ubuntu Linux - Skaperen - Jul-12-2021 Ubuntu Linux has a package named "python-wstools" that installed a number of files including two .gz files. the package in PyPI of the same name does not have any .gz files so i must conclude Ubuntu packagers added them. they a both in the "tests" subdirectory which the PyPI package did not have. so i am inclined to blame Ubuntu for them being corrupt. here's what i wonder. these are in a python-2.7 directory, only. does this even matter now that Python2 is well past EoL? i guess not.
RE: source of python-wstools has two corrupt .gz files in Ubuntu Linux - snippsat - Jul-12-2021 Do it the normally way with Python i never use Distors internal packages(often not updated) for Python. Quick test. tom@tom-VirtualBox:~$ python -m venv ws_env tom@tom-VirtualBox:~$ cd ws_env tom@tom-VirtualBox:~/ws_env$ source bin/activate (ws_env) tom@tom-VirtualBox:~/ws_env$ pip install wstools Collecting wstools ..... Successfully installed pbr-5.6.0 six-1.16.0 wstools-0.4.8 (ws_env) tom@tom-VirtualBox:~/ws_env$ python Python 3.9.1 (default, Jan 25 2021, 15:34:59) [GCC 7.3.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import wstools >>> >>> wstools.__version__ '0.4.8' >>> exit() (ws_env) tom@tom-VirtualBox:~/ws_env$ pip list Package Version ---------- ------- pbr 5.6.0 pip 21.1.3 setuptools 49.2.1 six 1.16.0 wstools 0.4.8 RE: source of python-wstools has two corrupt .gz files in Ubuntu Linux - Gribouillis - Jul-12-2021 In many versions of Ubuntu, packages for python 3 start with the prefix python3- . For example I see a package python3-wstool in my Ubuntu packages (note that there is no final 's'). That said, it is true that distro's python modules are often outdated. I often manage them with pip and the --user switch, for example
RE: source of python-wstools has two corrupt .gz files in Ubuntu Linux - Skaperen - Jul-13-2021 if i was seriously going to use the package, i'd install it with pip, too. this is probably a good example why. i think it was a leftover from playing around (not serious usage) in an earlier Ubuntu. i discovered these files while testing a script (zhash.py) that does a hash of the uncompressed form of files in a tree. it used my not-yet-released module named zopen that compresses or uncompresses files based on the file name extension(s). it also uses my ftrgen module to flatten the file tree. i wanted to give something big to do some long timing so i ran it for /usr. when writing a file, zopen() can write to a temporary file name and move the temporary name to the target name given when it is closed. compressing_file = zopen('foo.gz.bz2.xz','w',tempname=True)if the file name has multiple compression extensions (sometimes useful) it handles them. one hazard i ran into was a file with a few hundred trillion binary zeros that double compressed very small. it had no idea that this would take most of a day to uncompress. compressing it took a whole weekend. |