zlib.decompress cannot, gunzip can

[enrio]

I have a string which I try to decompress:

body = zlib.decompress(body)

but I get

zlib.error: Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check

However, I can write the string to a file and run gunzip with the
expected results:

f = open('/tmp/bd.gz', 'w')
f.write(body)
f.close
....
$ gunzip bd.gz
$ less bd

What should I do to decompress it in Python?

Regards, Enrique

[Dima Dorfman]

On 2005-03-01, en***@online.no <en***@online.no> wrote:

I have a string which I try to decompress:

body = zlib.decompress(body)

but I get

zlib.error: Error -3 while decompressing data: incorrect header check

However, I can write the string to a file and run gunzip with the
expected results:

gzip files have a header preceding the zlib stream. Try the gzip module.

[enrio]

Thanks, now the code is

from cStringIO import StringIO
from gzip import GzipFile
...
body = GzipFile('','r',0,StringIO(body)).read()

Regards, Enrique