Re: [Python-Dev] Zipfile needs?

2005-01-03 Thread Shane Holloway (IEEE)
Scott David Daniels wrote: What other wish list things do people around here have for zipfile? I thought I'd collect input here and make a PEP. I was working on a project based around modifying zip files, and found that python just doesn't implement that part. I'd like to see the ability to

Re: [Python-Dev] Zipfile needs?

2005-01-02 Thread Guido van Rossum
Encryption/decryption support. Will most likely require a C extension since the algorithm relies on ints (or longs, don't remember) wrapping around when the value becomes too large. You may want to do this in C for speed, but C-style int wrapping is easily done by doing something like x = x

Re: [Python-Dev] Zipfile needs?

2004-12-28 Thread Brett C.
Scott David Daniels wrote: I'm hoping to add BZIP2 compression to zipfile for 2.5. My primary motivation is that Project Gutenberg seems to be starting to use BZIP2 compression for some of its zips. What other wish list things do people around here have for zipfile? I thought I'd collect input

[Python-Dev] Zipfile needs?

2004-12-27 Thread Scott David Daniels
I'm hoping to add BZIP2 compression to zipfile for 2.5. My primary motivation is that Project Gutenberg seems to be starting to use BZIP2 compression for some of its zips. What other wish list things do people around here have for zipfile? I thought I'd collect input here and make a PEP. I can

Re: [Python-Dev] Zipfile needs?

2004-12-27 Thread Bob Ippolito
On Dec 27, 2004, at 8:43 PM, Josiah Carlson wrote: Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping to add BZIP2 compression to zipfile for 2.5. My primary motivation is that Project Gutenberg seems to be starting to use BZIP2 compression for some of its zips. What other wish list things