B19730_04_08-cloud.py

# Extract a zipped shapefile via a url
import urllib.request
import urllib.parse
import urllib.error
import zipfile
import io
import struct

url = "https://github.com/GeospatialPython/Learning/raw/master/hancock.zip"
cloudshape = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
memoryshape = io.BytesIO(cloudshape.read())
zipshape = zipfile.ZipFile(memoryshape)
cloudshp = zipshape.read("hancock.shp")
# Access Python string as an array
print(struct.unpack("<dddd", cloudshp[36: 68]))