EOF while scanning triple-quoted string literal

Question

i've looked on the web and here but i didn't find an answer : here is my code

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so it was a string that i got by zlib.compress an other string. How can i decompress this string ? Regards Bussiere

Answer 1

I would not have it in that representation. Use repr() in the other code to generate an ASCII-clean representation, and use that instead. Then just look for triple quotes in the result and break them up.

Answer 2

The zlib.decompress should work if you pass it the output of zlib.compress.

Since the compressed string is really not text it is a binary string. It will not play friendly with displaying to the terminal as you have found.

You can use base64 encoding to give you something safe to drop into unittests, paste into code etc.

>>> import zlib
>>> a = zlib.compress('fooo')
>>> b = a.encode('base64')
>>> b
'eJxLy8/PBwAENgG0\n'
>>> c = 'eJxLy8/PBwAENgG0\n'.decode('base64')
>>> zlib.decompress(c)
'fooo'
>>> zlib.decompress(a)
'fooo'

a as an output is ok for binary transmission or saving to a file.

b is friendly to use with the clipboard, send in email, etc.