>And besides, for long-term archiving purposes, I'd expect that zip et >al on a character-stream would provide significantly better >compression than a 4:1 packed format, and that zipping the packed >format wouldn't be all that much more efficient than zipping the >character stream.
This 105MB FASTA file is 8.3 MB gzip-ed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
