[Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed
Hey folks, I'm pleased to announce that as of changeset 74d182cf0187, the standard library now includes support for the LZMA compression algorithm (as well as the associated .xz and .lzma file formats). The new lzma module has a very similar API to the existing bz2 module; it should serve as a drop-in replacement for most use cases. If anyone has any feedback or any suggestions for improvement, please let me know. I'd like to ask the owners of (non-Windows) buildbots to install the XZ Utils development headers so that they can build the new module. For Debian-derived Linux distros, the relevant package is named liblzma-dev; on Fedora I believe the correct package is xz-devel. Binaries for OS X are available from the project's homepage at http://tukaani.org/xz/. Finally, a big thanks to everyone who contributed feedback during this module's development! Cheers, Nadeem ___ 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
Re: [Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed
2011/11/29 Nadeem Vawda nadeem.va...@gmail.com I'm pleased to announce that as of changeset 74d182cf0187, the standard library now includes support for the LZMA compression algorithm Congratulations! I'd like to ask the owners of (non-Windows) buildbots to install the XZ Utils development headers so that they can build the new module. And don't worry about Windows builbots, they will automatically download the XZ prebuilt binaries from the usual place. (svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/xz-5.0.3) Next step: add support for tar.xz files (issue5689)... -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc ___ 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
Re: [Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed
Congrats, this is an excellent feature. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc amaur...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/11/29 Nadeem Vawda nadeem.va...@gmail.com I'm pleased to announce that as of changeset 74d182cf0187, the standard library now includes support for the LZMA compression algorithm Congratulations! I'd like to ask the owners of (non-Windows) buildbots to install the XZ Utils development headers so that they can build the new module. And don't worry about Windows builbots, they will automatically download the XZ prebuilt binaries from the usual place. (svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/xz-5.0.3) Next step: add support for tar.xz files (issue5689)... -- Amaury Forgeot d'Arc ___ 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/anacrolix%40gmail.com ___ 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
Re: [Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Nadeem Vawda nadeem.va...@gmail.com wrote: liblzma-dev; on Fedora I believe the correct package is xz-devel. xz-devel is right. I just verified a build of the new module on a fresh F16 system. -- Meador ___ 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
