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Ruud van der Ham
Explorer | Level 3
3 months ago

Dropbox download via API unstable under Pyodide (xlwings lite)

I am using the Python dropbox module to download files in pyodide (actually xlwings lite). I see that quite often a file is not downloaded completely, without even raising an error. Is there a work...
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tiffanywalkEr
Helpful | Level 5
3 months ago

This is most likely due to incomplete streaming support in pyodide. You should try downloading in chunks and checking the file size or checksum after the transfer. As the Dropbox SDK itself will not throw an error if the streaming ends prematurely.

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