gzinfo 1.0.2

Retrieving archive filename from gz files in Python

Gzip Information

Getting the original filename form gzip archive in Python (compatible with Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8).

Install

from github directly:

pip install git+https://github.com/PierreSelim/gzinfo.git

Usage

If you gzip a file called foo.txt and rename the archive bar.txt you can still retrive the original name from the header (per RFC1952)

>>> import gzinfo
>>> info = gzinfo.read_gz_info('bar.txt.gz')
>>> info.fname
'foo.txt'