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

In pythonic form (2.5 or greater)

from __future__ import with_statement # for 2.5, does nothing in 2.6
from gzip import open as gzopen

with gzopen('foo.gz') as gzfile:
    for line in gzfile:
      print line.decode('utf-8')