Gzipped files aren't a good random access medium. It's
unlikely that anyone will implement this.
John Nagle
Paul Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to read a series of sqlite database files that have already been
> gzipped and was wondering if this can be done on the fly. In other words, can
> I avoid explicitly unzipping the file into another file, but instead get an
> SQL connection to the zip file either directly (can't see an option to do
> this) or to an object in memory resulting from unzipping, eg.
> (hypothetically);
>
> import gzip
> from sqlite3 import dbapi2 as sqlite
>
> data = gzip.GzipFile('Mydbase.db.gz','r')
> d = data.read()
> cnx = sqlite.connect(d) # or .connect(data)
> cur = cnx.cursor()
> ....etc
>
> The above of course doesn't work, but just to give you the idea.
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>
>
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