Issue #7471: Improve the performance of GzipFile's buffering mechanism,
and make it implement the `io.BufferedIOBase` ABC to allow for further
speedups by wrapping it in an `io.BufferedReader`. Patch by Nir Aides.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gzip.py b/Lib/test/test_gzip.py
index 13b0e57..60094dc 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_gzip.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
import unittest
from test import test_support
import os
+import io
import struct
gzip = test_support.import_module('gzip')
@@ -80,6 +81,16 @@
zgfile.close()
self.assertEquals(contents, 'a'*201)
+ def test_buffered_reader(self):
+ # Issue #7471: a GzipFile can be wrapped in a BufferedReader for
+ # performance.
+ self.test_write()
+
+ f = gzip.GzipFile(self.filename, 'rb')
+ with io.BufferedReader(f) as r:
+ lines = [line for line in r]
+
+ self.assertEqual(lines, 50 * data1.splitlines(True))
def test_readline(self):
self.test_write()