On Jan 5, 9:00 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 06/01/2012 02:14, random joe wrote: > > > On Jan 5, 7:27 pm, MRAB<pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > > >> I've found that if I gunzip it twice (gunzip it and then gunzip the > >> result) using the gzip module I get the text file. > > > On a windows machine? If so, can you post a code snippet please? > > Thanks > > import gzip > > in_file = gzip.open(r"C:\2012-January.txt.gz") > out_file = open(r"C:\2012-January.txt.tmp", "wb") > out_file.write(in_file.read()) > in_file.close() > out_file.close() > > in_file = gzip.open(r"C:\2012-January.txt.tmp") > out_file = open(r"C:\2012-January.txt", "wb") > out_file.write(in_file.read()) > in_file.close() > out_file.close()
EXCELLENT! Thanks. THis works however there is one more tiny hiccup. The text has lost all significant indention and newlines. Was this intended or is this a result of another bug? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list