Can Biopython Parse Gzipped Xml From Blast?

I have been using blast+ with the xml output format (-m7 in the older days, and outfmt 5 with ncbi-blast+). Since the XML files are huge, I have been gzipping them. I have also been using Biopython to parse the XML files. Is there a way to handle the gzipped file directly in (Bio)python?

Presently, I

gunzip output.xml.gz

from Bio.Blast import NCBIXML
blast_file = open ('output.xml')
blast_records = NCBIXML.parse(blast_file)

Thanks!