[issue7191] Odd behaviour with zlib.decompressobj optional parameter "wbits"

Anand B Pillai added the comment: Ok, so you think a documentation update is enough ? Thanks. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bug

[issue7191] Odd behaviour with zlib.decompressobj optional parameter "wbits"

Georg Brandl added the comment: The decompressor can't have a window size smaller than the size used to compress the stream. Therefore in your case, it can't be smaller than 15. Still, the docs must be improved, e.g. compressobj() has more parameters than documented. -- assignee: ->

[issue7191] Odd behaviour with zlib.decompressobj optional parameter "wbits"

New submission from Anand B Pillai : >>> import zlib >>> help(zlib.decompressobj) Help on built-in function decompressobj in module zlib: decompressobj(...) decompressobj([wbits]) -- Return a decompressor object. Optional arg wbits is the window buffer size. I experimented with this pa