uncompressed size of .gz file

[frankabel]

Hi!
What python function give me the uncompressed size of .gz file like
"gzip -l name_of_compress_file".
Thank



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[Cousin Stanley]

2004-09-16, (e-mail address removed) ....

Hi!
What python function give me the uncompressed size of .gz file like
"gzip -l name_of_compress_file".
Thank

Frank ....

You might try calling gzip -l
using the os.popen function ....


import os

path_in = '/path/to/some_file.gz'

pipe_in = os.popen( 'gzip -l %s' % path_in )

list_1 = pipe_in.readlines()

list_2 = list_1[ 1 ].split()

c , u , r , n = list_2

print '\n ' , c , u , r , n , '\n'