Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload?

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On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:38 PM,  <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015, at 20:23, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Paul Hubert <phbrt25@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > f_in = open(dafile, 'rb')
>> > f_out = gzip.open('/Users/Paul/Desktop/scripts/pic.jpg.gz', 'wb')
>> > f_out.writelines(f_in)
>> > f_out.close()
>> > f_in.close()
>>
>> Are you sure you want iteration and writelines() here? I would be
>> inclined to avoid those for any situation that isn't plain text. If
>> the file isn't too big, I'd just read it all in a single blob and then
>> write it all out at once.
>
> Is there a reason not to use shutil.copyfileobj?

If the file is too big (or might be too big) to want to fit into
memory, then sure. But a typical JPEG image isn't going to be
gigabytes of content; chances are it's going to be a meg or so at
most, and that doesn't justify the overhead of chunking. Just read it,
write it, job done.

ChrisA

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Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Paul Hubert <phbrt25@gmail.com> - 2015-06-17 14:55 -0700
  Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 10:23 +1000
    Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Paul Hubert <phbrt25@gmail.com> - 2015-06-17 17:45 -0700
      Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-06-17 19:10 -0600
      Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 11:46 +1000
        Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Paul Hubert <phbrt25@gmail.com> - 2015-06-17 20:48 -0700
          Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 13:56 +1000
          Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-06-17 21:59 -0600
          Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-18 23:44 +0200
  Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-06-18 08:38 -0400
  Re: Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-18 22:42 +1000

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