gzip_writelines.py

#1/usr/bin/env python

# this is from The Python
# Standard Library by example
# ISBN13: 9780321767349

# I get: gzcat not found?

import gzip
import itertools
import os

with gzip.open('example_lines.txt.gz', 'wb') as output:
    output.writelines(
        itertools.repeat('The same line, over and over. \n', 10)
    )

os.system('gzcat example_lines.txt.gz')