On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:15 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > This is exactly what I worry about. I think adding file I/O to bz2 was a > mistake, as this doesn't integrate with Python's IO library (it used > to, but now after dropping stdio, they were incompatible. Indeed, for > Python 3.2, BZ2File has been removed from the C module, and lifted to > Python. > > IOW, the _lzma C module must not do any I/O, neither directly nor > indirectly (through liblzma). The approach of gzip.py (doing IO > and file formats in pure Python) is exactly right.
PEP 399 also comes into play - we need a pure Python version for PyPy et al (or a plausible story for why an exception should be granted). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
