On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:38 PM, Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net> wrote: > Well after posting, I think I figured it out. > The key is to use StringIO to get a file handle on the string. The fact that > it is binary just complicates it a little. > > with open('Tests/Affy/affy_v3_ex.CEL.bz2', 'rb') as handle: > cel_data = StringIO(decompress(handle.read()).decode('ascii'))
You can just use bz2.open: >>> with bz2.open('test.txt.bz2', 'rt', encoding='ascii') as f: ... print(f.read()) ... hello! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list