From 26e50775ed5fbc36982719b22040454bc1d96cac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthew Stamy <mstamy2@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 17:16:16 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Appropriate error message for closed file, warn when
 returning null object, resolves #263

---
 PyPDF2/pdf.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/PyPDF2/pdf.py b/PyPDF2/pdf.py
index 9979414ff..13dbc38ee 100644
--- a/PyPDF2/pdf.py
+++ b/PyPDF2/pdf.py
@@ -571,6 +571,8 @@ def _sweepIndirectReferences(self, externMap, data):
                     self._sweepIndirectReferences(externMap, realdata)
                     return data
             else:
+                if data.pdf.stream.closed:
+                    raise ValueError("I/O operation on closed file: {}".format(data.pdf.stream.name))
                 newobj = externMap.get(data.pdf, {}).get(data.generation, {}).get(data.idnum, None)
                 if newobj == None:
                     try:
@@ -588,6 +590,9 @@ def _sweepIndirectReferences(self, externMap, data):
                         return newobj_ido
                     except ValueError:
                         # Unable to resolve the Object, returning NullObject instead.
+                        warnings.warn("Unable to resolve [{}: {}], returning NullObject instead".format(
+                            data.__class__.__name__, data
+                        ))
                         return NullObject()
                 return newobj
         else: