old_contents: #!/usr/bin/python
  
  import sys
  import zlib
  import tempfile
  import subprocess
  
  def decompressCatalog(filename, destination):
  	str_object1 = open(filename, 'rb').read()
  	str_object2 = zlib.decompress(str_object1)
  	f = open(destination, 'wb')
  	f.write(str_object2)
  	f.close()
  
  def openCatalog(filename):
  	subprocess.call(['sqlite3', filename])
  
  def usage():
  	print sys.argv[0] + " <catalog path>"
  	print "This script decompresses the given catalog file to a temporary storage"
  	print "and opens this directly with sqlite3."
  	print "WARNING: changes to this database will not persist, as it is only a temp"
  
  def main():
  	if len(sys.argv) != 2:
  		usage()
  		sys.exit(1)
  	
  	myTmpFile = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile('wb')
  	decompressCatalog(sys.argv[1], myTmpFile.name)
  	openCatalog(myTmpFile.name)
  	myTmpFile.close()
  	
  main()
new_contents: #!/usr/bin/python
  
  import cvmfs
  import sys
  
  def usage():
  	print sys.argv[0] + " <catalog path | catalog url>"
  	print "This script decompresses the given catalog file to a temporary storage"
  	print "and opens it directly with sqlite3."
  	print "WARNING: changes to this database will not persist, as it is only a temp"
  
  def main():
  	if len(sys.argv) != 2:
  		usage()
  		sys.exit(1)
  
  	catalog = cvmfs.OpenCatalog(sys.argv[1])
  	catalog.OpenInteractive()
  
  main()
  
subject: use cvmfs.py for openCatalog.py