Python: How to download a gz file and decompress it in one go

Here's a python snippet I recently used that downloads .gz files from a ftp server and decompresses it in one go.

import zlib from ftplib import FTP def get_gz(ftp, ftp_filename, local_filename): decomp = zlib.decompressobj(16+zlib.MAX_WBITS) unzip = open (local_filename, 'wb') def next_packet(data): unzip.write(decomp.decompress(data)) ftp.retrbinary('RETR ' + ftp_filename, next_packet) decompressed = decomp.flush() unzip.write(decompressed) unzip.close() ftp_ = FTP('ftp.host.xyz') ftp_.login() ftp_.cwd('/foo/bar') get_gz(ftp_, 'remote-file.gz', 'local-file')

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