Creating compressed gzip file python 3

Question

according to https://docs.python.org/3/library/gzip.html creating a compressed gzip file requires the following:

import gzip
content = b"Lots of content here"
with gzip.open('/home/joe/file.txt.gz', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(content)

However, when I run the code, I get the following error using python 3 AttributeError: module 'gzip' has no attribute 'open'

not sure what is happening....

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-18 15:25:51Z

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You've called something else gzip.py, which is shadowing the standard library module. Rename it and any compiled files.

answered Sep 18, 2017 at 15:25

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