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How to find out the uncompressed size of a .gz file without calling `gzip -l`
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| def get_gz_size(gzipfile): | |
| f = open(gzipfile, "rb") | |
| if f.read(2) != "\x1f\x8b": | |
| raise IOError("not a gzip file") | |
| f.seek(-4, 2) | |
| return struct.unpack("<i", f.read())[0] |
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