#!/usr/bin/env python
     # encoding: utf-8
     #
     # Copyright (c) 2008 Doug Hellmann All rights reserved.
     #
     """
     """
     
     __version__ = "$Id$"
     #end_pymotw_header
     
     import gzip
     from cStringIO import StringIO
     import binascii
     
     uncompressed_data = 'The same line, over and over.\n' * 10
     print 'UNCOMPRESSED:', len(uncompressed_data)
     print uncompressed_data
     
     buf = StringIO()
     f = gzip.GzipFile(mode='wb', fileobj=buf)
     try:
         f.write(uncompressed_data)
     finally:
         f.close()
     
     compressed_data = buf.getvalue()
     print 'COMPRESSED:', len(compressed_data)
     print binascii.hexlify(compressed_data)
     
     inbuffer = StringIO(compressed_data)
     f = gzip.GzipFile(mode='rb', fileobj=inbuffer)
     try:
         reread_data = f.read(len(uncompressed_data))
     finally:
         f.close()
     
     print
     print 'RE-READ:', len(reread_data)
     print reread_data