Download and decompress gzipped file in memory?

Question

I would like to download a file using urllib and decompress the file in memory before saving.

This is what I have right now:

Answer 1

For those using Python 3, the equivalent answer is:

import urllib.request
import io
import gzip

response = urllib.request.urlopen(FILE_URL)
compressed_file = io.BytesIO(response.read())
decompressed_file = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=compressed_file)

with open(OUTFILE_PATH, 'wb') as outfile:
    outfile.write(decompressed_file.read())