Python unzipping stream of bytes?

Question

Here is the situation:

• I get gzipped xml documents from Amazon S3

  import boto
  from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection
  from boto.s3.key i         
  
  
          

Answer 1

I had to do the same thing and this is how I did it:

import gzip
f = StringIO.StringIO()
k.get_file(f)
f.seek(0) #This is crucial
gzf = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=f)
file_content = gzf.read()