trying to gzip uncompress a StringIO

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Tue, 22 May 2007 14:22:25 -0300, <bob at snee.com> escribió:

> I'm using the code below to read the zipped, base64 encoded WMF file
> saved in an XML file with "Save as XML" from MS Word. As the "At this
> point" comment shows, I know that the base64 decoding is going fine,
> but unzipping from the decodedVersion StringIO object isn't getting me
> anything, because the len(fileContent) call is returning 0. Any
> suggestions?

Perhaps GzipFile reads from the current position till end (and sees  
nothing).
Try rewinding the file:

> decodedVersion = StringIO.StringIO()
> base64.decode(open(infile, 'r'),decodedVersion)
   decodedVersion.seek(0)
> fileObj = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=decodedVersion);
> fileContent = fileObj.read()
> print len(fileContent)

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Gabriel Genellina