gzip - Support for gzip files

(examples from Python LibRef)

Note

Python modules bz2, tarfile, zipfile, zlib are available for respective formats and can be used in a similar way.

Example of how to read a compressed file:

import gzip
f = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'rb')
file_content = f.read()
f.close()

Example of how to create a compressed GZIP file:

import gzip
content = "Lots of content here"
f = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb')
f.write(content)
f.close()

Example of how to GZIP compress an existing file:

import gzip
f_in = open('/home/joe/file.txt', 'rb')
f_out = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb')
f_out.writelines(f_in)
f_out.close()
f_in.close()