I am working with gzip raw data that contains non-ASCII characters that I am unable to decompress and decode.
The data is clearly gzip given the prefix x1fx8b
but the rest of the body contains non-standard chars. Is there anyway to decode this?
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I tried decompressing the data using gzip.decompress and received the error:
<code>TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
</code>
<code>TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
</code>
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
I tried reading the string as bytes:
<code>with open(my_string,'rb') as f:
data = f.read()
</code>
<code>with open(my_string,'rb') as f:
data = f.read()
</code>
with open(my_string,'rb') as f:
data = f.read()
and received error:
<code>ValueError: embedded null byte
</code>
<code>ValueError: embedded null byte
</code>
ValueError: embedded null byte