Commit dc7666b7 authored by Antoine Pitrou's avatar Antoine Pitrou

Modernize gzip examples

parent f77dd81b
......@@ -102,26 +102,22 @@ Examples of usage
Example of how to read a compressed file::
import gzip
f = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'rb')
with gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'rb') as f:
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')
content = b"Lots of content here"
with gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb') as f:
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')
with open('/home/joe/file.txt', 'rb') as f_in:
with f_out = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb') as f_out:
f_out.writelines(f_in)
f_out.close()
f_in.close()
Example of how to GZIP compress a binary string::
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