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

For Python 3

Try out this:

import gzip

fetch = opener.open(request) # basically get a response object
data = gzip.decompress(fetch.read())
data = str(data,'utf-8')