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On Mon, 09 Aug 1999 21:55:46 GMT,
catlee@my-deja.com <catlee@my-deja.com> wrote:
>gzip file objects don't seem to close themselves automatically. When I
>do this:

Because they don't have a __del__ method, so when you're writing the
output file isn't closed (and the checksum isn't written). Try this
patch:

Index: gzip.py
===================================================================
RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/python/dist/src/Lib/gzip.py,v
retrieving revision 1.12
diff -C3 -r1.12 gzip.py
*** gzip.py 1999/04/12 14:34:16 1.12
--- gzip.py 1999/08/10 01:16:51
***************
*** 251,256 ****
--- 251,259 ----
self.myfileobj.close()
self.myfileobj = None

+ def __del__(self):
+ if self.myfileobj is not None: self.close()
+
def flush(self):
self.fileobj.flush()


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