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Asked: 2026-05-26T03:20:15+00:00

I’ve found this snippet , which seems to do the job, but I can’t

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I’ve found this snippet, which seems to do the job, but I can’t understand why it uses StringIO. Isn’t f already a file-like object? What is the need to read it, then make it look like a file again, only to read it again? I’ve tested it (well, a slightly modified version of it), and it doesn’t work without StringIO.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Seems to be a flaw in python standard library which is fixed in Python 3.2.
    see http://www.enricozini.org/2011/cazzeggio/python-gzip/

    urllib and urllib2 file objects do not provide a method tell() as requested by gzip.

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