python - how to inflate gzipped, base64d string

Question

I'm just wondering how is it possible to inflate/decompress a string of text that is a gzipped compressed string that also hase base64 encoding?

For instance, all the python examples seem to focus on opening a file, whereas I want to work on a gzipped string.

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Answer 1

You can use base64 and zlib libraries:

import base64, zlib
decoded_data = base64.b64decode(zlib.decompress(encoded_data))

The gzip module is only for file operations: https://docs.python.org/2/library/gzip.html. It uses zlib for actual compression/decompression.

python - how to inflate gzipped, base64d string

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