How can I create a GzipFile instance from the “file-like object” that urllib.urlopen() returns?

Question

I’m playing around with the Stack Overflow API using Python. I’m trying to decode the gzipped responses that the API gives.

import urllib, gzip

url = urllib         


        

Answer 1

import urllib2
import json
import gzip
import io

url='http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.0/badges/name'
page=urllib2.urlopen(url)
gzip_filehandle=gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=io.BytesIO(page.read()))
json_data=json.loads(gzip_filehandle.read())
print(json_data)

io.BytesIO is for Python2.6+. For older versions of Python, you could use cStringIO.StringIO.