Damn this is annoying me. I have a webpage with a BZ2 compressed text embedded in it looking like:
'BZh91AY&SYA\xaf\x82\r\x00\x00\x01\x01\x80\x02\xc0\x02\x00 \x00!\x9ah3M \x07<]\xc9\x14\xe1BA\x06\xbe\x084' Now, if I simply copy and paste this into Python and decompress it - it works a treat. However, I want to read the file containing this data, extract the data and decompress it and this for some reason does not work. I am doing the following (excuse the probably very long handed way of doing it): file = urllib.urlopen(url, proxies=proxies) line = file.readlines() file.close() line = line[20:] line = line[:-1] user = line[0] password = line[1] user = user[5:] user = user[:-2] user = str(user) password = password[5:] password = password[:-2] This gives me a user string of: BZh91AY&SYA\xaf\x82\r\x00\x00\x01\x01\x80\x02\xc0\x02\x00 \x00!\x9ah3M \x07<]\xc9\x14\xe1BA\x06\xbe\x084 But if I put this into the decompression function, I get a error of 'IOError: invalid data stream'. I know it is the escape characters but how do I get these to be correctly converted into a string compatible with bz2.decompress()? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
