So here's the problem. I have sample.gz file which is roughly 60KB in size. I want to decompress the first 2000 bytes of this file. I am running into CRC check failed error, I guess because the gzip CRC field appears at the end of file, and it requires the entire gzipped file to decompress. Is there a way to get around this? I don't care about the CRC check. Even if I fail to decompress because of bad CRC, that is OK. Is there a way to get around this and unzip partial .gz files?
The code I have so far is
import gzip
import time
import StringIO
file = open('sample.gz', 'rb')
mybuf = MyBuffer(file)
mybuf = StringIO.StringIO(file.read(2000))
f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=mybuf)
data = f.read()
print data
The error encountered is
File "gunzip.py", line 27, in ?
data = f.read()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/gzip.py", line 218, in read
self._read(readsize)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/gzip.py", line 273, in _read
self._read_eof()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/gzip.py", line 309, in _read_eof
raise IOError, "CRC check failed"
IOError: CRC check failed
Also is there any way to use zlib module to do this and ignore the gzip headers?
解决方案
I seems that you need to look into Python zlib library instead
The GZIP format relies on zlib, but introduces a file-level compression concept along with CRC checking, and this appears to be what you do not want/need at the moment.
Edit: the code on Doubh Hellman's site only show how to compress or decompress with zlib. As indicated above, GZIP is "zlib with an envelope", and you'll need to decode the envellope before getting to the zlib-compressed data per se. Here's more info to go about it, it's really not that complicated:
see RFC 1952 for details about the GZIP format
This format starts with a 10 bytes header, followed by optional, non compressed elements such as the file name or a comment, followed by the zlib-compressed data, itself followed by a CRC-32 (precisely an "Adler32" CRC).
By using Python's struct module, parsing the header should be relatively simple
The zlib sequence (or its first few thousand bytes, since that is what you want to do) can then be decompressed with python's zlib module, as shown in the examples above
Possible problems to handle: if there are more than one file in the GZip archive, and if the second file starts within the block of a few thousand bytes we wish to decompress.
Sorry to provide neither an simple procedure nor a ready-to-go snippet, however decoding the file with the indication above should be relatively quick and simple.