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.