Gzip -> FTP w/o using a temporary file

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

"Joel Burton" <pup at pobox.com> writes:
> I tried using os.pipe() to create an r/w pipe, but the 'w' part of the pipe
> isn't writable, according to gzip.GzipFile()

os.pipe() returns file descriptors, which are small integers, while
GzipFile expects a Python file object.  Wrap the file descriptor in
a file object using os.fdopen(), something like
output = os.fdopen( w, 'wb')

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