#!/usr/bin/env python # encoding: utf-8 # # Copyright (c) 2008 Doug Hellmann All rights reserved. # """ """ __version__ = "$Id$" #end_pymotw_header import bz2 import itertools import os output = bz2.BZ2File('example_lines.txt.bz2', 'wb') try: output.writelines(itertools.repeat('The same line, over and over.\n', 10)) finally: output.close() os.system('bzcat example_lines.txt.bz2')