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In Python, how do I decode GZIP encoding?

I downloaded a webpage in my python script. In most cases, this works fine.

However, this one had a response header: GZIP encoding, and when I tried to print the source code of this web page, it had all symbols in my putty.

How do decode this to regular text?

Solution

  • I use zlib to decompress gzipped content from web.

    import zlib
import urllib

f=urllib.request.urlopen(url) 
decompressed_data=zlib.decompress(f.read(), 16+zlib.MAX_WBITS)