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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Large plain/text files returned as gzip and library doesn't handle this case","articleBody":"python --version\r\n**Python 3.6.1**\r\n\r\n**smartfile==2.19**\r\n\r\nExample from documentation:\r\n\r\n```\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e import shutil\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e from smartfile import BasicClient\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e api = BasicClient()\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e f = api.get('/path/data/', 'small.txt')\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e with open('small.txt', 'wb') as o:\r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e     # f.getheaders().get('Content-Encoding') \r\n\u003e\u003e\u003e     shutil.copyfileobj(f, o)\r\n```\r\nworks fine with small files, but when file is large (I tested 100Mb text file) \r\n`f.getheaders().get('Content-Encoding')` returns `gzip` and instead of expected source text file gzip content is downloaded and saved to file. \r\n\r\nIt can be handled with:\r\n```\r\n        if f.getheaders().get('Content-Encoding') == 'gzip':\r\n            o.write(gzip.decompress(f.read()))\r\n        else:\r\n            shutil.copyfileobj(f, o)\r\n```\r\nbut ideally I think library should handle this case.\r\nOr, at least, docs have to be updated and mention this possible issue.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/grunichev","@type":"Person","name":"grunichev"},"datePublished":"2017-10-10T11:29:15.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/19/client-python/issues/19"}