gut

def gut(string):
    """gzip the string and return the uu -encoded version."""
    import StringIO, uu, gzip, hashlib
    def md5(e):
        return hashlib.md5(str(e)).hexdigest()
    zipp = StringIO.StringIO()
    uuu = StringIO.StringIO()
    g = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=zipp, mode='wb') # gzip(path, 'wb')
    g.write(string)
    g.close()
    zipp.seek(0)
    uu.encode(zipp, uuu)
    # qp uu.encode(zipp, uuu, 1)
    # uu.binhex(zipp, uuu)
    zipp.seek(0);zipp.flush()
    uuu.seek(0)
    code = uuu.read()
    s = code.strip()
    if s.endswith('end'):
        lines = s.splitlines()[:-1] # remove the end
        if not lines[-1].strip():
            lines[-1] = 'end\n'
            code = '\n'.join(lines)
    [f.close() for f in [uuu, zipp, g]]
    return """
Copy the text between triple-# and run as a script to decode.

    ###
code = \\
r'''%s'''
def tug(string):
    \"\"\"Return text of a uu encoded gzipped text.\"\"\"
    import StringIO, uu, gzip
    f1 = StringIO.StringIO()
    f2 = StringIO.StringIO()
    f2.write(string)
    f2.seek(0)
    uu.decode(f2, f1)
    f2.seek(0)
    f2.flush()
    f1.seek(0)
    text = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=f1, mode='rb')
    msg = text.read()
    [f.close() for f in [text, f1, f2]]
    return msg

code = tug(code)
import hashlib
assert hashlib.md5(str(code)).hexdigest() == \\
'%s'
###""" % (code, md5(string))