Hi all,
I'm using the gzip module to return a gzip response from a small
python httpserver. I'd like to know the number of bytes written to
the underlying socket, but it doesn't seem to support the tell()
function. This works fine for a file:
[15:39:51] mattb ~ $ cat mygzip.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import gzip
f = open("tmp.gz", "wb")
gz = gzip.GzipFile('', 'wb', 6, f)
for i in xrange(100):
gz.write('abcdefg' * 100)
gz.flush()
print gz.tell()
print f.tell()
gz.close()
f.close()
print os.stat('tmp.gz').st_size
[15:40:17] mattb ~ $ ./mygzip.py
70000
141
151
So I wrote 70000 raw bytes which gets compressed to 151 bytes -- I
guess the 10-byte difference is a gzip header or something?
Is there any way to get this same functionality when using a socket?
thx
Matt
