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Using StringIO to read a zip file directly from the network
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gistfile1.py
import urllib2
import zipfile
import StringIO
response = urllib2.urlopen('http://some_url.zip')
body = response.read()
io = StringIO.StringIO(body)
# io is a file-like object... you can use it where you'd use a file!
myfile = zipfile.ZipFile(io)
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