Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Do Python devs really view gzip and bz2 as two totally completely > different animals? They both have the same functionality and would be > used for the same kinds of things. Maybe I'm missing something.
Well, the reality of divergent implementation strategies trumps the theory of API compatibility :) The approach taken by bz2 is IMO regrettable, but it's not a ten minutes job to write it again from scratch. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10791> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
