fseek In Compressed Files

[Ayushi Dalmia]

On Thursday, January 30, 2014 9:51:28 PM UTC+5:30, Peter Otten wrote:
> Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
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> > 30.01.14 13:28, Peter Otten написав(ла):
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> >> Ayushi Dalmia wrote:
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> >>> I need to randomly access a bzip2 or gzip file. How can I set the offset
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> >>> for a line and later retreive the line from the file using the offset.
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> >>> Pointers in this direction will help.
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> >>
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> >> with gzip.open(filename) as f:
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> >>      f.seek(some_pos)
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> >>      print(f.readline())
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> >>      f.seek(some_pos)
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> >>      print(f.readline())
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> >>
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> >> seems to work as expected. Can you tell a bit more about your usecase (if
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> >> it isn't covered by that basic example)?
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> > I don't recommend to seek backward in compressed file. This is very
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> > inefficient operation.
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> Do you know an efficient way to implement random access for a bzip2 or gzip 
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> file?

Nothing that I know of.