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Decompress Chunk Truncated error

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start with the README instructions and the python -m snappy -d temp.snappy temp.txt command, then reproduce the reported UncompressError: chunk truncated failure. Trace the CLI's decompression entry point to determine whether the command or input handling is at fault; done means the cause is identified and the documented command either works or reports the problem clearly.

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Description

I have tried to follow the readme and write this line from my REPL like so:

python -m snappy -d temp.snappy temp.txt

However I get the error UncompressError: chunk truncated

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