[Expat-discuss] expat and compressed xml

[Dan Nicholson]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:37 PM, gilbert F. <gilbertff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here is a quick question about parsing xml .gz file. Here is what I
> did. With the following script
>
> req = urllib2.Request(query_url)
> xml_file = urllib2.urlopen(req).read()
>
> I downloaded a compressed xml file.  The file has a suffix of ".gz".
>
> Now I used
>
> p = xml.parsers.expat.ParserCreate()
> p.ParseFile(xml_file)

I think you just want Parse instead of ParseFile since you've already
read the data into a buffer.

http://docs.python.org/library/pyexpat.html#xml.parsers.expat.xmlparser.Parse

--
Dan