Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: As shown in msg180323, using lzma compression for typical *.py and *.pyc produces 8% less zip file, but reading from it is 2.5 times slower. The bzip2 compression is even worse. So there is no large benefit in supporting other compression methods.
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