Hi there, We tried to gzip the output of a shell command, but this results in a strange error: the resulting file seems to be the concatenation of the plaintext file with the zipped content.
For example: f = gzip.open(filename, 'w') subprocess.check_call(['ls','-la'], stdout=f) f.close() Using a normal file works as expected, but a GzipFile results in a file containing what looks like the unzipped data, followed by the zipped data. I suspect this may have something to do with limitations of GzipFile such as it not implementing truncate(). Does anyone have an explanation / can you suggest a nice solution for doing what we are trying to do? Regards - Iwan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
