On Wed, Jun 17, 2015, at 20:23, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Paul Hubert <phbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > f_in = open(dafile, 'rb') > > f_out = gzip.open('/Users/Paul/Desktop/scripts/pic.jpg.gz', 'wb') > > f_out.writelines(f_in) > > f_out.close() > > f_in.close() > > Are you sure you want iteration and writelines() here? I would be > inclined to avoid those for any situation that isn't plain text. If > the file isn't too big, I'd just read it all in a single blob and then > write it all out at once.
Is there a reason not to use shutil.copyfileobj? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list