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Reading & Writing GZIP Files in Python

I have been testing various ways to read and write text files with GZIP in Python. There were a lot of uninteresting results, but there were two I thought were worth sharing.

Writing GZIP files

If you have a big list of strings to write to a file, you might be tempted to do:

f = gzip.open(out_path, 'wb')

for line in lines: