New submission from M.-A. DARCHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The documentation for the gzip python module as found at http://docs.python.org/lib/module-gzip.html could be improved by code examples. Those examples are really lacking.
Here below are the code snippets I propose. This is inspired by http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_gzip.html but done with respect and with another useful (I think) example. # Example of how to decompress a file import gzip file_obj = gzip.GzipFile('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'rb'); file_content = file_obj.read() file_obj.close() # Example of how to create a compressed GZIP file import gzip file_content = "Lots of content here" file_obj = gzip.GzipFile('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb'); file_obj.write(file_content) file_content.close() # Example of how to compress an existing file import shutil import gzip file_obj_in = file('/home/joe/file.txt', 'rb') file_obj_out = gzip.GzipFile('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb'); shutil.copyfileobj(file_obj_in, file_obj_out) file_obj_out.close() Best regards. ---------- assignee: georg.brandl components: Documentation messages: 63981 nosy: georg.brandl, madarche severity: normal status: open title: Improvement suggestions for the gzip module documentation __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2406> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
