f = urllib2.urlopen(request) data = f.read() try: from cStringIO import StringIO from gzip import GzipFile data2 = GzipFile('', 'r', 0, StringIO(data)).read() data = data2 except: #print "decompress error %s" % err pass
return data
hello
Reference
https://docs.python.org/2/library/gzip.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2695152/in-python-how-do-i-decode-gzip-encoding/2695575#2695575