Except for the pointless 'myfileobj' stuff in gzip.py, rev 8 of the patch looks good to me. (Btw, I'm not actually in favor of e.g. the seekable() change. The previous patch was intended as a proof-of-concept to see what would be necessary to inherit more from DecompressReader and if it's actually worth it. But having thought about it for a while more, I don't think there's a significant gain. But I'm happy to see that you were able to cherry-pick some useful pieces out of it nevertheless).