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Python: Compress a UTF-8 file using GZIP compression
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def compress_utf8_file(fullpath, delete_original = True): | |
"""Compress a UTF-8 encoded file using GZIP compression named *.gz. If `delete_original` is `True` [default: True], | |
the original file specified by `delete_original` is removed after compression.""" | |
with codecs.open(fullpath, 'r', 'utf-8') as fin: | |
with gzip.open(fullpath + '.gz', 'wb') as fout: | |
for line in fin: | |
fout.write(unicode(line).encode('utf-8')) | |
if delete_original: | |
os.remove(fullpath) |
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