Index: Lib/gzip.py
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--- Lib/gzip.py	(revision 53597)
+++ Lib/gzip.py	(working copy)
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
             self._new_member = True
             self.extrabuf = ""
             self.extrasize = 0
-            self.filename = filename
+            self.name = filename
             # Starts small, scales exponentially
             self.min_readsize = 100
 
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@
         if self.mode == WRITE:
             self._write_gzip_header()
 
+    @property
+    def filename(self):
+        import warnings
+        warnings.warn("use the name attribute", DeprecationWarning)
+        return self.name
+
     def __repr__(self):
         s = repr(self.fileobj)
         return '<gzip ' + s[1:-1] + ' ' + hex(id(self)) + '>'
@@ -134,7 +140,7 @@
     def _init_write(self, filename):
         if filename[-3:] != '.gz':
             filename = filename + '.gz'
-        self.filename = filename
+        self.name = filename
         self.crc = zlib.crc32("")
         self.size = 0
         self.writebuf = []
@@ -143,7 +149,7 @@
     def _write_gzip_header(self):
         self.fileobj.write('\037\213')             # magic header
         self.fileobj.write('\010')                 # compression method
-        fname = self.filename[:-3]
+        fname = self.name[:-3]
         flags = 0
         if fname:
             flags = FNAME