May 2009

I was very surprised that I couldn’t do this easily in Python, so here is the solution to this:

import zlib
# ...
ungziped_str = zlib.decompressobj().decompress('x\x9c' + gziped_str)

Wow, PHP does it like this:

$ungziped_str = gzinflate($gziped_str);

I was getting this error message and I was using a Queue object to queue some jobs and block everything until all threads are done with:

the_queue.join()

Well, in my particular case, I was getting these error messages the work was not done in worker threads:

Unhandled exception in thread started by
Error in sys.excepthook:

Original exception was:

So what I did was this:

threads = []
for i in range(0, max_threads):
   thread = Worker()
   thread.start()
   threads.append(thread)
 
# And then...
for thread in threads:
   thread.join()

And this fixed my issue, this will make sense to people with this problem