K Richard Pixley <r...@noir.com> added the comment:

My point was for python-2.7.  I haven't stumbled into the buffer protocol yet.  
So no, it doesn't really.

I still think the documentation, especially the 2.7 doc, could be more explicit.

My concern here is with the use of close() becoming obscure, a second class 
citizen, or an afterthought.  While I greatly appreciate the context manager, 
there are times when I want an enduring open channel for which the context 
manager just isn't appropriate.  Even in a world with context manager, open and 
close need to be available and presented as a pair.

It isn't clear to me from reading the doc or looking at the examples that gzip 
is expected to support a close call.  Yes, I concur that there is an 
implication, but I would prefer to see it stated explicitly along with the 
explicit statement that it supports an open call.

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