Python decompressing gzip chunk-by-chunk

Question

I\'ve a memory- and disk-limited environment where I need to decompress the contents of a gzip file sent to me in string-based chunks (over xmlrpc binary transfer). However,

Answer 1

I've got a more detailed answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/22310760/1733117

d = zlib.decompressobj(zlib.MAX_WBITS|32)

per documentation this automatically detects the header (zlib or gzip).