Issue #21560: An attempt to write a data of wrong type no longer cause

GzipFile corruption.  Original patch by Wolfgang Maier.

Lib/gzip.py

@@ -238,9 +238,9 @@ class GzipFile(io.BufferedIOBase):
             data = data.tobytes()
 
         if len(data) > 0:
-            self.size = self.size + len(data)
+            self.fileobj.write(self.compress.compress(data))
+            self.size += len(data)
             self.crc = zlib.crc32(data, self.crc) & 0xffffffffL
-            self.fileobj.write( self.compress.compress(data) )
             self.offset += len(data)
 
         return len(data)

Lib/test/test_gzip.py

@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@ class TestGzip(unittest.TestCase):
     def tearDown(self):
         test_support.unlink(self.filename)
 
+    def write_and_read_back(self, data, mode='b'):
+        b_data = memoryview(data).tobytes()
+        with gzip.GzipFile(self.filename, 'w'+mode) as f:
+            l = f.write(data)
+        self.assertEqual(l, len(b_data))
+        with gzip.GzipFile(self.filename, 'r'+mode) as f:
+            self.assertEqual(f.read(), b_data)
+
     @test_support.requires_unicode
     def test_unicode_filename(self):
         unicode_filename = test_support.TESTFN_UNICODE
@@ -60,6 +68,25 @@ class TestGzip(unittest.TestCase):
         # Test multiple close() calls.
         f.close()
 
+    # The following test_write_xy methods test that write accepts
+    # the corresponding bytes-like object type as input
+    # and that the data written equals bytes(xy) in all cases.
+    def test_write_memoryview(self):
+        self.write_and_read_back(memoryview(data1 * 50))
+
+    def test_write_incompatible_type(self):
+        # Test that non-bytes-like types raise TypeError.
+        # Issue #21560: attempts to write incompatible types
+        # should not affect the state of the fileobject
+        with gzip.GzipFile(self.filename, 'wb') as f:
+            with self.assertRaises(UnicodeEncodeError):
+                f.write(u'\xff')
+            with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
+                f.write([1])
+            f.write(data1)
+        with gzip.GzipFile(self.filename, 'rb') as f:
+            self.assertEqual(f.read(), data1)
+
     def test_read(self):
         self.test_write()
         # Try reading.

Misc/NEWS

@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #21560: An attempt to write a data of wrong type no longer cause
+  GzipFile corruption.  Original patch by Wolfgang Maier.
+
 - Issue #23647: Increase impalib's MAXLINE to accommodate modern mailbox sizes.
 
 - Issue #23539: If body is None, http.client.HTTPConnection.request now sets