[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:44:01 -0400

Gustavo Niemeyer writes:

Btw, is there any intention of including python-bz2? If so, it should be checked out in those platforms I have no access to.

Is python-bz2 a bzip2 module, similar to the zlib module? I think it would be nice to have the more space-efficient algorithm available, but I really don't know how many people would use it. In the end, most people seem to want to work with ZIP (or JAR) files, and zlib supports that well enough.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation