Gzip - gunzip using zlib

[flebber]

Hi Can anyone show me a working example of how to use gzip to
decompress a file. I have read the docs at python.org and had many
goes at it but just can't get it to work.

Cheers

flebber

[Paul Rubin]

Re: Gzip - gunzip using zlib

flebber <flebber.crue@g mail.comwrites:

Hi Can anyone show me a working example of how to use gzip to
decompress a file. I have read the docs at python.org and had many
goes at it but just can't get it to work.

Untested in this instance, but this is how I usually do it:

import gzip

z = gzip.open('parr ot.gz')
for line in z:
...

[Stefan Behnel]

Re: Gzip - gunzip using zlib

flebber wrote:

Hi Can anyone show me a working example of how to use gzip to
decompress a file. I have read the docs at python.org and had many
goes at it but just can't get it to work.

According to your other post, you are trying to open a ZIP archive using gzip.
Use the zipfile module instead.

Stefan