I have a set of numpy arrays which I would like to save to a gzip file. Here is an example without gzip:
b=numpy.ones(1000000,dtype=numpy.uint8) a=numpy.zeros(1000000,dtype=numpy.uint8) fd = file('test.dat','wb') a.tofile(fd) b.tofile(fd) fd.close() This works fine. However, this does not: fd = gzip.open('test.dat','wb') a.tofile(fd) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> IOError: first argument must be a string or open file In the bigger picture, I want to be able to write multiple numpy arrays with some metadata to a binary file for very fast reading, and these arrays are pretty compressible (strings of small integers), so I can probably benefit in speed and file size by gzipping. Thanks, Sean -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list