How to decode a source code which is compressed with gzip in python

One obvious way to do this is to extract the compressed data from the response and decompress it using GzipFile().read(). This method of splitting the response might be prone to failure, but here it goes:

from gzip import GzipFile
from StringIO import StringIO

http = 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nServer: nginx\r\nDate: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:02:25 GMT\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\nContent-Length: 115\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-Encoding: gzip\r\nAccess-Control-Allow-Origin: *\r\nAccess-Control-Allow-Credentials: true\r\n\r\n\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\xa0\xda\xb9V\x02\xff\xab\xe6RPPJ\xaf\xca,(HMQ\xb2R()*M\xd5Q\x00\x89e\xa4&\xa6\xa4\x16\x15\x03\xc5\xaa\x81\\\xa0\x80G~q\t\x90\xa7\x94QRR\x90\x94\x99\xa7\x97_\x94\xae\x04\x94\xa9\x85(\xcfM-\xc9\xc8\x07\x99\xa0\xe4\xee\x1a\xa2\x04\x11\xcb/\xcaL\xcf\xcc\x03\x89\x19Z\x1a\xe9\x19\x9aY\xe8\x19\xea\x19*q\xd5r\x01\x00\r(\xafRu\x00\x00\x00'

body = http.split('\r\n\r\n', 1)[1]
print GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO(body)).read()

Output

{
  "gzipped": true, 
  "headers": {
    "Host": "httpbin.org"
  }, 
  "method": "GET", 
  "origin": "192.168.1.1"
}

If you feel compelled to parse the full HTTP response message, then, as inspired by this answer, here is a rather roundabout way to do it which involves constructing a httplib.HTTPResponse directly from the raw HTTP response, using that to create a urllib3.response.HTTPResponse, and then accessing the decompressed data:

import httplib
from cStringIO import StringIO
from urllib3.response import HTTPResponse

http = 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nServer: nginx\r\nDate: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:02:25 GMT\r\nContent-Type: application/json\r\nContent-Length: 115\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-Encoding: gzip\r\nAccess-Control-Allow-Origin: *\r\nAccess-Control-Allow-Credentials: true\r\n\r\n\x1f\x8b\x08\x00\xa0\xda\xb9V\x02\xff\xab\xe6RPPJ\xaf\xca,(HMQ\xb2R()*M\xd5Q\x00\x89e\xa4&\xa6\xa4\x16\x15\x03\xc5\xaa\x81\\\xa0\x80G~q\t\x90\xa7\x94QRR\x90\x94\x99\xa7\x97_\x94\xae\x04\x94\xa9\x85(\xcfM-\xc9\xc8\x07\x99\xa0\xe4\xee\x1a\xa2\x04\x11\xcb/\xcaL\xcf\xcc\x03\x89\x19Z\x1a\xe9\x19\x9aY\xe8\x19\xea\x19*q\xd5r\x01\x00\r(\xafRu\x00\x00\x00'

class DummySocket(object):
    def __init__(self, data):
        self._data = StringIO(data)
    def makefile(self, *args, **kwargs):
        return self._data

response = httplib.HTTPResponse(DummySocket(http))
response.begin()
response = HTTPResponse.from_httplib(response)
print(response.data)

Output

{
  "gzipped": true, 
  "headers": {
    "Host": "httpbin.org"
  }, 
  "method": "GET", 
  "origin": "192.168.1.1"
}