[Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed (original) (raw)

Nadeem Vawda nadeem.vawda at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 23:59:11 CET 2011

Hey folks,

I'm pleased to announce that as of changeset 74d182cf0187, the standard library now includes support for the LZMA compression algorithm (as well as the associated .xz and .lzma file formats). The new lzma module has a very similar API to the existing bz2 module; it should serve as a drop-in replacement for most use cases.

If anyone has any feedback or any suggestions for improvement, please let me know.

I'd like to ask the owners of (non-Windows) buildbots to install the XZ Utils development headers so that they can build the new module. For Debian-derived Linux distros, the relevant package is named "liblzma-dev"; on Fedora I believe the correct package is "xz-devel". Binaries for OS X are available from the project's homepage at <http://tukaani.org/xz/>.

Finally, a big thanks to everyone who contributed feedback during this module's development!

Cheers, Nadeem

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