New submission from Anand B Pillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Python has great in-built support for all sorts of text compression including bzip, gzip, tarfile and other general purpose modules like zlib etc.
Of these, I have a gripe with gzip - it does not provide a simple way of compressing/uncompressing a string like the other modules to (namely bzip, zlib) at the module level. It is relatively easy to perform gzip de-compression using the GzipFile class and StringIO objects, but compression is not that straight-forward. It would be great for the gzip module to have "compress" and "uncompress" functions at the module level without having to go through GzipFile every-time. I think being able to send gzip compressed strings directly would be useful for applications which require to send gzip data over the wire without having to write to files and read-back. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 70578 nosy: pythonhacker severity: normal status: open title: Provide compress/uncompress functions on the gzip module type: feature request versions: Python 3.0 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3488> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
