How to read from a text file compressed with 7z?

Question

I would like to read (in Python 2.7), line by line, from a csv (text) file, which is 7z compressed. I don\'t want to decompress the entire (large) file, but to stream the li

Answer 1

If you were using Python 3.3+, you might be able to do this using the lzma module which was added to the standard library in that version.

See: lzma Examples