On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Please file a feature request ticket on the tracker: http://bugs.python.org. > > 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/musiccomposition%40gmail.com > -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1." _______________________________________________ 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
