From: Andrew Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 15:44:40 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: #21146: give a more efficient recipe in gzip docs
X-Git-Tag: v3.5.0a4~60
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f887a6180ac374ab91d614584e26c0e30406f571;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

#21146: give a more efficient recipe in gzip docs
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diff --git a/Doc/library/gzip.rst b/Doc/library/gzip.rst
index a8e77049d370..04c41d585c8e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/gzip.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/gzip.rst
@@ -189,9 +189,10 @@ Example of how to create a compressed GZIP file::
 Example of how to GZIP compress an existing file::
 
    import gzip
+   import shutil
    with open('/home/joe/file.txt', 'rb') as f_in:
        with gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb') as f_out:
-           f_out.writelines(f_in)
+           shutil.copyfileobj(f_in, f_out)
 
 Example of how to GZIP compress a binary string::