Re: [pygame] Problem with pygame.image.load() and a gzip.open() stream

[Paul Broadhead <misclist_1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lenard Lindstrom wrote:

> Which file type is out of your control, the .bmp image format or the 
> gzip compression.

Both unfortunately.

> Got it. GzipFile.seek() has no optional whence argument. 
> pygame.image.load calls seek() with both an offset and whence, but
> does not pass on the exception raised by GzipFile.seek().

Thanks for looking into this.  I presume this means that if if the bug
you're spotted was fixed, I'd still not be able to use the GzipFile
stream.

> 2) Read the gzip file into a string and use StringIO to pass the
> string to pygame.image.load().

I did try something like that then, thanks again.

Paul