Reading utf-8 characters from a gzip file in python

Question

I am trying to read a gunzipped file (.gz) in python and am having some trouble.

I used the gzip module to read it but the file is encoded as a utf-8 text file so ev

Answer 1

Maybe

import codecs
zf = gzip.open(fname, 'rb')
reader = codecs.getreader("utf-8")
contents = reader( zf )
for line in contents:
    pass