Python - Download File Using Requests, Directly to Memory

Question

The goal is to download a file from the internet, and create from it a file object, or a file like object without ever having it touch the hard drive. This is just for my kn

Answer 1

This is what I ended up doing.

import zipfile 
import requests
import StringIO

u = requests.get("http://www.pythonchallenge.com/pc/def/channel.zip")
f = StringIO.StringIO() 
f.write(u.content)

def extract_zip(input_zip):
    input_zip = zipfile.ZipFile(input_zip)
    return {i: input_zip.read(i) for i in input_zip.namelist()}
extracted = extract_zip(f)