Re: how to close a gzip.GzipFile?



GzipFile has a parameter 'fileobj' which you could use.
GzipFile( [filename[, mode[, compresslevel[, fileobj]]]])

For iteratng over the file
how about :
line = oldfileobj.readline()
while line !="":
oldmd5.update(line)
line = oldfileobj.readline()

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