""" Defines utility methods for working with gzip streams. """ import zlib # Window size for decompressing GZIP streams. # This results in ZLIB automatically detecting the GZIP headers. # http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3122145/zlib-error-error-3-while-decompressing-incorrect-header-check/22310760#22310760 ZLIB_GZIP_WINDOW = zlib.MAX_WBITS | 32 def calculate_size_handler(): """ Returns an object and a SocketReader handler. The handler will gunzip the data it receives, adding the size found to the object. """ uncompressed_size_info = { 'size': 0 } decompressor = zlib.decompressobj(ZLIB_GZIP_WINDOW) def fn(buf): uncompressed_size_info['size'] += len(decompressor.decompress(buf)) return uncompressed_size_info, fn