Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.va...@gmail.com> added the comment: > This is all fine and well, but this is clearly a bug and not a feature.
No, it is not at all clear that this is a bug. I agree that this is a desirable capability to have, but nowhere does the module claim to support multi-stream files. Nor is it an inherent feature of the underlying bzip2 library that we are failing to expose to users. > [...] python 2.x users will never be able to extract multiple-stream bz2 > files. Incorrect. It is perfectly possible to extract a multi-stream bz2 file in 2.x - you just need to open it with open() and decompress the data using BZ2Decompressor (pretty much the same way that 3.3's BZ2File does it). If there is really a large demand for these facilities in 2.x, I would be willing to port 3.3's BZ2File implementation to 2.x and make it available on PyPI. But this patch is not going in to the 2.7 stdlib; it is simply not the sort of behavior change that is acceptable in a bugfix release. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1625> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
