Question

I am a python newbie here…

I have a gzipped file (C:\sample.gz) that I have downloaded off the internet and I need help with code that will extract the csv file inside to its own file (C:\sample.csv) all I see is code to load it into memory… is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

You could use python’s gzip library.

import gzip
with gzip.open('/sample.gz', 'rb') as my_gz:
    file_content = my_gz.read()
    with open('/sample.csv', 'wb') as my_csv:
        my_csv.write(file_content)