Python: Creating a streaming gzip'd file-like?

Question

I\'m trying to figure out the best way to compress a stream with Python\'s zlib.

I\'ve got a file-like input stream (input, below) and an o

Answer 1

The gzip module supports compressing to a file-like object, pass a fileobj parameter to GzipFile, as well as a filename. The filename you pass in doesn't need to exist, but the gzip header has a filename field which needs to be filled out.

Update

This answer does not work. Example:

# tmp/try-gzip.py 
import sys
import gzip

fd=gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=sys.stdin)
sys.stdout.write(fd.read())

output:

===> cat .bash_history  | python tmp/try-gzip.py  > tmp/history.gzip
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tmp/try-gzip.py", line 7, in 
    sys.stdout.write(fd.read())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 254, in read
    self._read(readsize)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 288, in _read
    pos = self.fileobj.tell()   # Save current position
IOError: [Errno 29] Illegal seek