Rajarshi wrote:
> Hi, I have some code that takes a string and obtains a compressed
> version using zlib.compress
>
> Does anybody know how I can remove the header portion of the compressed
> bytes, such that I only have the compressed data remaining?
what makes you think there's a "header portion" in the data you get
from zlib.compress ? it's just a continuous stream of bits, all of
which are needed by the decoder.
> (Obviously I do not intend to perform the decompression!)
oh. in that case, this should be good enough:
data[random.randint(0,len(data)):]
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