On 5/4/2012 12:14 AM, Steve Howell wrote:
On May 3, 11:59 pm, Paul Rubin<no.em...@nospam.invalid>  wrote:
Steve Howell<showel...@yahoo.com>  writes:
     compressor = zlib.compressobj()
     s = compressor.compress("foobar")
     s += compressor.flush(zlib.Z_SYNC_FLUSH)

     s_start = s
     compressor2 = compressor.copy()

   That's awful. There's no point in compressing six characters
with zlib.  Zlib has a minimum overhead of 11 bytes.  You just
made the data bigger.

                                John Nagle
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