try: import zlib except ImportError: import uzlib as zlib PATTERNS = [ # Packed results produced by CPy's zlib.compress() (b'0', b'x\x9c3\x00\x00\x001\x001'), (b'a', b'x\x9cK\x04\x00\x00b\x00b'), (b'0' * 100, b'x\x9c30\xa0=\x00\x00\xb3q\x12\xc1'), (bytes(range(64)), b'x\x9cc`dbfaec\xe7\xe0\xe4\xe2\xe6\xe1\xe5\xe3\x17\x10\x14\x12\x16\x11\x15\x13\x97\x90\x94\x92\x96\x91\x95\x93WPTRVQUS\xd7\xd0\xd4\xd2\xd6\xd1\xd5\xd370426153\xb7\xb0\xb4\xb2\xb6\xb1\xb5\xb3\x07\x00\xaa\xe0\x07\xe1'), (b'hello', b'x\x01\x01\x05\x00\xfa\xffhello\x06,\x02\x15'), # compression level 0 ] for unpacked, packed in PATTERNS: assert zlib.decompress(packed) == unpacked print(unpacked) # Raw DEFLATE bitstream v = b'\xcbH\xcd\xc9\xc9\x07\x00\x86\xa6\x106\x05\x00\x00\x00' exp = b"hello" out = zlib.decompress(v, -15) assert(out == exp) print(exp)