On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 18:57, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:43:04 -0800 > "Gregory P. Smith" <g...@krypto.org> wrote: [snip] > > I don't think adding lz4 to the stdlib is worthwhile. It isn't required > > for core functionality as zlib is (lowest common denominator zip support). > > Actually, if some people are interested in compressing .pyc files, lz4 > is probably the best candidate (will yield significant compression > benefits with very little CPU overhead). >
It's interesting to note that there's an outstanding feature request to enable "import modules from a library.tar.lz4", justified on the basis that it would be helpful to the python-for-android project: https://github.com/python-lz4/python-lz4/issues/45 Cheers, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
