[issue39121] gzip header write OS field

2019-12-23 Thread Rob Man
Rob Man added the comment: I do not need it for personaly, but since RFC exists and since linux command line equivalent writes OS information, why should python gzip implementation not include that. The same goes for the FCOMMENT field for wich I also have a patch ready and I they're both

[issue39121] gzip header write OS field

2019-12-22 Thread Rob Man
Change by Rob Man : -- versions: -Python 3.9 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue39121> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe:

[issue39121] gzip header write OS field

2019-12-22 Thread Rob Man
Change by Rob Man : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +17138 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/17682 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issu

[issue39121] gzip header write OS field

2019-12-22 Thread Rob Man
New submission from Rob Man : Files written with gzip module write a value of 255 (unknown) at the 10th position in the header which defined what OS was used when gzip file was written. Files written with gzip linux command correctly set that field to the value of 3 (Unix). This ehancement