reading from an a gzip file

[Nader]

Hello,

I have a gzip file and I try to read from this file withe the next
statements:

gunziped_file = gzip.GzipFile(' gzip-file')
input_file = open(gunziped_f ile,'r')

But I get the nezt error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "read_sfloc_fil es.py", line 131, in ?
input_file = open(gunziped_f ile,'r')
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, instance found

I think that I do some mistake. Would some body tell me what is my
mistake?

Nader

[Matt Nordhoff]

Re: reading from an a gzip file

Nader wrote:

Hello,
>
I have a gzip file and I try to read from this file withe the next
statements:
>
gunziped_file = gzip.GzipFile(' gzip-file')
input_file = open(gunziped_f ile,'r')
>
But I get the nezt error message:
>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "read_sfloc_fil es.py", line 131, in ?
input_file = open(gunziped_f ile,'r')
TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, instance found
>
I think that I do some mistake. Would some body tell me what is my
mistake?
>
Nader

gzip.GzipFile() creates a file-like object. You don't call open() on it;
you use it directly.

$ echo foo >test
$ gzip test
$ python

>>import gzip
>>gfh = gzip.GzipFile(' test.gz', 'rb')
>>gfh.read()

'foo\n'

>>gfh.close()

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