How to unzip gz file using Python

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I need to extract a gz file that I have downloaded from an FTP site to a local Windows file server  I have the variables set for the local path of the file  and I know it can be used by GZIP muddle    How can I do this  The file inside the GZ file is an XML file

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It is very simple   Here you go    import gzip   path to file to be extracted  ip   sample gzip   output file to be filled  op   open  quot output file quot   quot w quot     with gzip open ip  quot rb quot   as ip byte      op write ip byte read   decode  quot utf-8 quot       wf close

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from sh import gunzip  gunzip   tmp file1 gz

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If you are parsing the file after unzipping it  don t forget to use decode   method  is necessary when you open a file as binary   import gzip with gzip open file gz   rb   as f      for line in f          print line decode   strip

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import gzip import shutil with gzip open  file txt gz    rb   as f in      with open  file txt    wb   as f out          shutil copyfileobj f in  f out

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From the documentation      import gzip f   gzip open  file txt gz    rb   file content   f read   f close

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Maybe you want pass it to pandas also   with gzip open  features train csv gz   as f       features train   pd read csv f   features train head

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Not an exact answer because you re using xml data and there is currently no pd read xml   function  as of v0 23 4   but pandas  starting with v0 21 0  can uncompress the file for you  Thanks Wes   import pandas as pd import os fn       data file to load json gz  print os path isfile fn   df   pd read json fn  lines True  compression  gzip   df tail

[python] How to unzip gz file using Python

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