On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:58:56 +0100 Rune Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm storing gzipped data in a MySQL blob field. I can fetch the blob and > "wb" write the data to a file. It becomes a file containg gz data. > > I can't take the same data and do anything sensible with it in python - > like say zlib.decompress(data). > > How can I convert the binary data from the blob field to the gzipped > string it was stored as (java stores the string, Pickle is not an option)? You can pass any file-like object to GzipFile class: from gzip import GzipFile from cStringIO import StringIO GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO(data)).read() -- Denis S. Otkidach http://www.python.ru/ [ru] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
