!gzip --- Support for gzip files — Examples of usage
Example of how to read a compressed file import gzip with gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'rb') as f: file_content = f.read() Example of how to create a compressed GZIP file import gzip content = b"Lots of content here" with gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb') as f: f.write(content) Example
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Example of how to read a compressed file
import gzip with gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'rb') as f: file_content = f.read()
Example of how to create a compressed GZIP file
import gzip content = b"Lots of content here" with gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb') as f: f.write(content)
Example of how to GZIP compress an existing file
import gzip import shutil with open('/home/joe/file.txt', 'rb') as f_in: with gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb') as f_out: shutil.copyfileobj(f_in, f_out)
Example of how to GZIP compress a binary string
import gzip s_in = b"Lots of content here" s_out = gzip.compress(s_in)
Module zlib The basic data compression module needed to support the gzip file format.
In case gzip (de)compression is a bottleneck, the python-isal package speeds up (de)compression with a mostly compatible API.
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