Added a new fileno() method. ZODB's repozo.py wants this so it can

apply os.fsync() to the GzipFile backup files it creates.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/gzip.py b/Lib/gzip.py
index d51b7db..9cab995 100644
--- a/Lib/gzip.py
+++ b/Lib/gzip.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ but random access is not allowed."""
 
 # based on Andrew Kuchling's minigzip.py distributed with the zlib module
 
-import struct, sys, time
+import os, struct, sys, time
 import zlib
 import __builtin__
 
@@ -334,6 +334,14 @@ class GzipFile:
     def flush(self):
         self.fileobj.flush()
 
+    def fileno(self):
+        """Invoke the underlying file object's fileno() method.
+
+        This will raise AttributeError if the underlying file object
+        doesn't support fileno().
+        """
+        return self.fileobj.fileno()
+
     def isatty(self):
         return False