Hi Benjamin, Filed http://bugs.python.org/issue3488.
Btw I have a fix ready for this, but I am not in the developer list and do not have permissions for checkins. Thanks --Anand On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Benjamin Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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." > -- -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
