Barry wrote: > Here's my attempt at petching a webpage which is gzip encoded - > > import urllib.request > import gzip > import io > > request = urllib.request.Request(url='http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ > baby',headers={'Accept': 'text/html','User-Agent':'Mozilla/5.0 > (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/420.1 > (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3'} ) > response = urllib.request.urlopen(request) > data = response.read() > > compressedstream = io.StringIO(data) > > gzipper = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=compressedstream) > data = gzipper.read() > print(data) > > > However it gives the error: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "test.py", line 9, in <module> > TypeError: initial_value must be str or None, not bytes > > How should I be doing this for Python 3?
Use io.BytesIO instead of io.StringIO, as Rob Williscroft showed you yesterday. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
