Martin Panter added the comment:
This is an unusual technique. I can’t think of any other standard library
routine that returns a new bytearray instead of a bytes object.
Normally there are sister functions with an -into() suffix that accept a
pre-allocated buffer. Examples are BufferedIOBase.readinto(),
struct.pack_into(), socket.recv_into(). What do you think about adding a
decompressobj.decompress_into(input, output) method instead? If necessary you
could use it in a wrapper, something like:
def decompress_as_bytearray(data, wbits=15, bufsize=16384):
decompressor = zlib.decompressobj(wbits=wbits)
buffer = bytearray(bufsize + 1) # Overallocate to help detect EOF
offset = 0
while True:
with memoryview(buffer) as view:
offset += decompressor.decompress_into(data, view[offset:])
if offset < len(buffer):
break
data = decompressor.unconsumed_tail
buffer *= 2 # Expand the buffer
del buffer[offset:]
if not decompressor.eof:
raise zlib.error("Incomplete data")
return buffer
If anything is added for zlib decompression, it would be good to add equivalent
functionality in the bz2 and LZMA modules.
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