Posting gzip'd image file - server says Malformed Upload?

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:38 PM,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015, at 20:23, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Paul Hubert <phbrt25 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > f_in = open(dafile, 'rb')
>> > f_out = gzip.open('/Users/Paul/Desktop/scripts/pic.jpg.gz', 'wb')
>> > f_out.writelines(f_in)
>> > f_out.close()
>> > f_in.close()
>>
>> Are you sure you want iteration and writelines() here? I would be
>> inclined to avoid those for any situation that isn't plain text. If
>> the file isn't too big, I'd just read it all in a single blob and then
>> write it all out at once.
>
> Is there a reason not to use shutil.copyfileobj?

If the file is too big (or might be too big) to want to fit into
memory, then sure. But a typical JPEG image isn't going to be
gigabytes of content; chances are it's going to be a meg or so at
most, and that doesn't justify the overhead of chunking. Just read it,
write it, job done.

ChrisA