From: Michael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:09:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: backport montanaro's checkin of
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.2b1~200
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=91848deb3073bd93ddd2585660cdaf512d4cb9c1;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

backport montanaro's checkin of
    revision 1.33 of gzip.py

force gzip module to open files using 'b'inary mode.
closes patch #536278.

This looked like a bugfix candidate to me at some point...
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diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py
index 7f561532add5..efd072519c90 100644
--- a/Lib/gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/gzip.py
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ class GzipFile:
 
     def __init__(self, filename=None, mode=None,
                  compresslevel=9, fileobj=None):
+        # guarantee the file is opened in binary mode on platforms
+        # that care about that sort of thing
+        if mode and 'b' not in mode:
+            mode += 'b'
         if fileobj is None:
             fileobj = self.myfileobj = __builtin__.open(filename, mode or 'rb')
         if filename is None: