Python has great in-built support for all sorts of text compression including bzip, gzip, tarfile and other general purpose modules like zlib etc.
Of these, I have a gripe with gzip - it does not provide a simple way of compressing/uncompressing a string like the other modules to (namely bzip, zlib) at the module level. It is relatively easy to perform gzip de-compression using the GzipFile class and StringIO objects, but compression is not that straight-forward. It would be great for the gzip module to have "compress" and "uncompress" functions at the module level without having to go through GzipFile every-time. If it is not too late in the dev-cycle, please consider this. Thanks -- -Anand _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
