In Python, how do I decode GZIP encoding?

Question

I downloaded a webpage in my python script. In most cases, this works fine.

However, this one had a response header: GZIP encoding, and when I tried to print the sou

Answer 1

I use something like that:

f = urllib2.urlopen(request)
data = f.read()
try:
    from cStringIO import StringIO
    from gzip import GzipFile
    data2 = GzipFile('', 'r', 0, StringIO(data)).read()
    data = data2
except:
    #print "decompress error %s" % err
    pass
return data