New submission from Raymond Hettinger: Only a little of the existing logic is tied to the zipfile format. Consider adding support for xz, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, etc.
In particular, xz has better compression, resulting in both space savings and faster load times. ---------- messages: 180307 nosy: rhettinger priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Expand zipimport to include other compression methods type: enhancement versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17004> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com