On Aug 21, 9:40 pm, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > SeanMon schrieb: > > > Is there a way to decompress a large (2GB) gzipped file being > > retrieved over FTP on the fly? > > > I'm using ftplib.FTP to open a connection to a remote server, and I > > have had no success connecting retrbinary to gzip without using an > > intermediate file. > > > Is there any way to get a file-like object describing the remote file, > > or a way to utilize gzip's decompression without providing it a file- > > like object? > > gzip is really just a file format. In order to work with compressed > streams you should use the low level zlib module. > > http://docs.python.org/library/zlib.html#module-zlib > > Have fun! > > Christian
Unfortunately, the file on the server is a gzip file, so I cannot simply pipe the contents into a zlib.decompressobj (which does have the ability to decompress in chunks, as I wish gzip did!). Thanks, Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
