On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 12:08 Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net wrote: > On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:35:31 +0000 > Jonathan Underwood <jonathan.underw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > Interesting. The tar format isn't adequate for this: the whole tar > file will be compressed at once, so you need to uncompress it all even > to import a single module. The zip format is more adapted, but it > doesn't seem to have LZ4 in its registered codecs. >
Zip can be used without compression as a simple container for files, though, and there's nothing that says those can't be .pyc.lz4 files. -n
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