Travis wrote:
The zlib interface does not indicate when you've hit the
> end of a compressed stream....
The underlying zlib functionality provides for this.
With python's zlib, you have to read past the compressed data and into
the uncompressed, which gets stored in Decompress.unused_data.
... [good explanation of why this is problematic] ...
A simple way to fix this would be to add a finished attribute to the
Decompress object.
Perhaps you could submit a patch with such a change?
However, perhaps this would be a good time to discuss how this library
works; it is somewhat awkward and perhaps there are other changes which
would make it cleaner.
Well, it might be improvable, I haven't really looked. I personally
would like it and bz2 to get closer to each other in interface, rather
than to spread out. SO if you are really opening up a can of worms,
I vote for two cans.
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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