Decompressing a file retrieved by URL seems too complex

[Aahz]

In article <4c645c39$0$1595$742ec2ed at news.sonic.net>,
John Nagle  <nagle at animats.com> wrote:
>
>I'm reading a URL which is a .gz file, and decompressing it.  This
>works, but it seems far too complex.  Yet none of the "wrapping"
>you might expect to work actually does.  You can't wrap a GzipFile
>around an HTTP connection, because GzipFile, reasonably enough, needs
>random access, and tries to do "seek" and "tell".  Nor is the output
>descriptor from gzip general; it fails on "readline", but accepts
>"read". (No good reason for that.) So I had to make a second copy.

Also consider using zlib directly.
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