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read gzipped data from a remote file as a string
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gzip_remote_file.py
import io
import gzip
import requests
data = requests.get('https://url/file.txt.gz', stream=True)
in_ = io.BytesIO()
in_.write(data.content)
in_.seek(0)
gunzipped_bytes_obj = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=in_, mode='rb').read()
data = gunzipped_bytes_obj.decode()
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