Read from a gzip file in python

Question

I've just make excises of gzip on python.

import gzip f=gzip.open('Onlyfinnaly.log.gz','rb') file_content=f.read() print file_content 

And I get no output on the screen. As a beginner of python, I'm wondering what should I do if I want to read the content of the file in the gzip file. Thank you.

Answer 1

Try gzipping some data through the gzip libary like this...

import gzip content = "Lots of content here" f = gzip.open('Onlyfinnaly.log.gz', 'wb') f.write(content) f.close() 

... then run your code as posted ...

import gzip f=gzip.open('Onlyfinnaly.log.gz','rb') file_content=f.read() print file_content 

This method worked for me as for some reason the gzip library fails to read some files.