How to check empty gzip file in Python

Question

I don\'t want to use OS commands as that makes it is OS dependent.

This is available in tarfile, tarfile.is_tarfile(filename), to check if

Answer 1

Try something like this:

def is_empty(gzfile):
    size = gzfile.read().
    if len(size) > 0:
         gzfile.rewind()
         return False
    else:
         return True