#!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: utf-8 # # Copyright (c) 2008 Doug Hellmann All rights reserved. # """ """ __version__ = "$Id$" #end_pymotw_header import gzip import os outfilename = 'example.txt.gz' output = gzip.open(outfilename, 'wb') try: output.write('Contents of the example file go here.\n') finally: output.close() print outfilename, 'contains', os.stat(outfilename).st_size, 'bytes of compressed data' os.system('file -b --mime %s' % outfilename)