uncompress base64-gzipped string

[John Machin]

Niels Egberts <niels.egberts <at> gmail.com> writes:

> zlib.error: Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check
> 
> How can I solve this?

The link you quoted says "you need to first base64 decode
the string, then gunzip the resulting data" ... so gunzip it:

| >>> s0 =
"H4sIAAAAA......"
| >>> import base64
| >>> s1 = base64.b64decode(s0)
| >>> len(s0)
| 72
| >>> len(s1)
| 54
| >>> import StringIO
# or cStringIO or io depending on what
# Python versions you want to support
| >>> sio = StringIO.StringIO(s1)
| >>> import gzip
| >>> gzf = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=sio)
| >>> guff = gzf.read()
| >>> len(guff)
| 4096
| >>> guff[:100]
| '\x1b\x00\x00\x00\x1b\x00\x00\x00\x1b\x00\x00\x00 [snip]

What a long journey: parse xml, base64 decode, gunzip,
and you're still not home; next stop is struct.unpack ...

HTH,
John