[issue9962] GzipFile doesn't have peek()

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Right, I missed the change from self.max_read_chunk to 1024
> (read_size). Should not peek() limit to self.max_read_chunk as read()
> does?

This is used for the chunking of huge reads, but for peek():
1) there is no chunking (peek() should do at most one raw read)
2) huge reads are not really the use case peek() is intended for

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