read xml file from compressed file using gzip

[flebber]

On Jun 8, 3:31 pm, Stefan Behnel <stefan.behnel-n05... at web.de> wrote:
> flebber wrote:
> > I was working at creating a simple program that would read the content
> > of a playlist file( in this case *.k3b") and write it out . the
> > compressed "*.k3b" file has two file and the one I was trying to read
> > was maindata.xml.
>
> Consider using lxml. It reads in gzip compressed XML files transparently and
> provides loads of other nice XML goodies.
>
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/
>
> Stefan

I will, baby steps at the moment for me at the moment though as I am
only learning and can't get gzip to work