From: akuchlin at cnri.reston.va.us (Andrew M. Kuchling)
Date: Tue,  4 May 1999 09:13:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Bug in module gzip
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Konrad Hinsen writes:
>The attribute unused_data is in fact never set. It should thus be
>impossible to read any file at all, which makes me wonder if nobody
>noticed this before... and perhaps has a fix!

	unused_data is an attribute added to the zlib module in 1.5.2,
so Python code can get access to data after the end of a compressed
stream.  Therefore you'll also need to use the zlib module from 1.5.2.

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