Downloading TV listings with urllib

[darrell]

This worked.

        print gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=cStringIO.StringIO(tvg().read()) ).read()

--Darrell



Gerhard Häring wrote:

> Josh wrote:
>> On 17 Apr 2003, you wrote in comp.lang.python:
>>>Josh wrote: [...]
>>>>        h.putheader('Accept-Encoding:',
>>>>        'gzip,deflate,compress;q=0.9') [...]
>>>>when I use err.read() to read the object returned I get everything in
>>>>Hex.
>>>
>>>My guess is that you get what you're asking for - gzip-compressed
>>>data.
>> 
>>  Well I don't want gzipped data. I want HTML so I can parse it and
>>  capture
>> the listings table into a list or something. Any ideas?
> 
> Don't tell the webserver that you'll accept gzip-compressed data?
> 
> I. e. remove the line I quoted above.
> 
> -- Gerhard