read large zip file

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:20:31 -0300, Brian Blais <bblais at bryant.edu>  
escribió:

> I need to read a series of large zipfiles (which only contain one
> large text file), and I noticed that the zipfile module:
>
> 1) has a read method which isn't an iterator, and returns the entire
> file selected all at once
> 2) has no readlines method, and no obvious way to implement one
>
> Is there a way to stream an unzip, so it behaves more like a file?

Use the module from the 2.6 version; it appears to work fine even on  
Python 2.4 (see this thread  
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/71c4890cefac82aa/  
)

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Gabriel Genellina