Document gzip command line interface

[tirkarthi]

BPO	34913
Nosy	@JulienPalard, @tirkarthi
PRs	bpo-34913: Document gzip command line interface #9782

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title = 'Document gzip command line interface'
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[tirkarthi]

gzip supports command line interface with python -m gzip like zipfile and tarfile but there is no help available from the command line which can be covered when bpo-23596 is merged that uses argparse along with tests for which are also lacking at the moment. There can be at least docs about command line arguments at https://docs.python.org/3/library/gzip.html. Currently there is no way to know how the command line interface works for gzip without looking at the source code.

[JulienPalard]

New changeset 7c817e6 by Julien Palard (Stéphane Wirtel) in branch 'master':
bpo-34913: Document gzip command line interface (GH-9782)
7c817e6