[Python-Dev] Re: Zipfile needs? (original) (raw)
Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org
Tue Dec 28 06:36:07 CET 2004
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Josiah Carlson wrote:
Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote:
I'm hoping to add BZIP2 compression to zipfile for 2.5. My primary motivation is that Project Gutenberg seems to be starting to use BZIP2 compression for some of its zips. What other wish list things do people around here have for zipfile? I thought I'd collect input here and make a PEP.
I can open a pseudo-file for STORED files in binary read mode, for example, to allow reading zip-in-zip files without fully occupying memory. I'm not sure that zipfile needs BZIP2 support...being that there is a bzip2 module. - Josiah
Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev at python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/python-python-dev%40m.gmane.org But if you look at the zipfile document, BZIP2 is a compression technique you can use (per file) in a zip archive. In fact, I use bz2 to compress/decompress, but the data still needs to inhabit the archive.
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