Error while running self._resultheader['ptrGEO'] about pymapdl-reader

[akaszynski]

Quite likely. Can you upload the file here or if you're not comfortable with that, to my business email at [email protected]

[akaszynski]

I'm unable to reproduce the error using the latest ansys-mapdl-reader on either Linux or Windows Python 3.8 with:

from ansys.mapdl import reader

rst = reader.read_binary('file.rst')

rst_ = reader.rst.Result('file.rst', read_mesh=True)

Could you please verify this error occurs on the file you sent to my work email?

[NDfp]

Thank you for checking!
I have found out that the cause of the error is that the file is read-only (Windows). When removing the read-only flag, the import works correctly.
I checked in common.py and the file is opened as read ('rb'). Do you know what could cause the error?

[akaszynski]

I checked in common.py and the file is opened as read ('rb')

'rb' is just read binary, so that shouldn't be an issue, but there's another spot in the file where I open it as a fstream, which is read/write.

There was a feature request a while ago to overwrite results in the result file that resulted in a significant refactor of the code base. I could allow an option to open in read/read write, but that's a non-trivial PR.

Is it possible just to disable the read-only flag?

[jgd10]

@NDfp @akaszynski This issue seems to have stalled. Do we need to implement a new issue to cover the non-trivial work that akaszynski suggests or is disabling the read-only flag sufficient to close this issue?

[jgd10]

It's been long enough since the last comment that I think it is safe to close this issue for now, unless anything else comes up and we can reopen it.