[issue17681] Work with an extra field of gzip files

2013-05-29 Thread Dmi Baranov
Dmi Baranov added the comment: I'll be glad to do it, but having some questions for discussing. First about FEXTRA format - it consists of a series of subfields [1] and current Lib/test/test_gzip.py :: test_read_with_extra having a bit incorrect extra field - sure, if somebody using format fro

[issue17681] Work with an extra field of gzip files

2013-04-09 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: Gzip files can contains an extra field and some applications use this for extending gzip format. The current GzipFile implementation ignores this field on input and doesn't allow to create a new file with an extra field. I propose to save an extra field da