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manual_gzip.py
def manual_gzip(data, cache_file=None):
_header = ("\037\213\010\000" # magic, type, flags
"\000\000\000\000" # mtime
"\002\377") # xfl, os
co = zlib.compressobj()
return ''.join([_header, co.compress(data)[2:], co.flush()])
# struct.pack("<ll",zlib.crc32(data),len(data))])
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hoisie commented Jun 3, 2010

Very useful stuff, thanks!

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