import gzip f_in = open('/home/joe/file.txt') f_out = gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb') f_out.writelines(f_in) f_out.close() f_in.close()
import gzip import shutil with gzip.open('file.txt.gz', 'rb') as f_in: with open('file.txt', 'wb') as f_out: shutil.copyfileobj(f_in, f_out)