The gzip module provides a file-like interface to GNU zip files, using zlib to compress and uncompress the data.

Writing Compresed Files



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import gzip
import io
import os
outfilename = 'example.txt.gz'
with gzip.open(outfilename, 'wb') as output:
    with io.TextIOWrapper(output,encoding='utf-8') as enc:
        enc.write('Content of the example fiel to here.\n')
print(outfilename, 'contatins',os.stat(outfilename).st_size, 'bytes')









    



example.txt.gz contatins 75 bytes



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os.system('file -b --mime {}'.format(outfilename))









    Out[3]:





0

Reading Compressed Data



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import gzip
import io
with gzip.open('example.txt.gz', 'rb') as input_file:
    with io.TextIOWrapper(input_file, encoding='utf-8') as dec:
        print(dec.read())









    



Content of the example fiel to here.