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From: illume at gmx.net (Paul Kunysch)
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Date: 22 Apr 1999 11:43:10 +0200
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Subject: bzip2 module for Python
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References: <d3bea2f548.tratt@tratt.freeserve.co.uk>
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Message-ID: <87emldous1.fsf@illusion.tui-net>
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Laurence Tratt <tratt at dcs.kcl.ac.uk> writes:
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Hi
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> [me 'announcing' pyBZlib]
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> >> As I said, I am interested to know if there is a demand for this, so
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> >> comments are appreciated.
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>> IMHO it would be nice to have a module like the current "gzip", which
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>> handles .bz2 .gz .Z and uncompressed files transparently.
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> Do you mean you would like to see a module where you give it a file (which
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> could be .bz2, .gz, .zip etc), and then get an uncompressed version back
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> without worrying what compression type was used?
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Yes.
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Well, not ".zip", since it's an archive, and not a compressed file.
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But please support plain uncompressed files, too. Why should a
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programmer use different interfaces if one could do everything?
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> Would you also want it to automatically untar files?
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Didn't think about it. Depends on the syntax. If it's easy enough that
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the user of our programs can specify some files as an tar-comonent
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without breaking existing code, why not.
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( "somewhere/webmirror.tar.bz2/index.html" ? )
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Hiding the "bzlib-functions" in the "urllib" might be more usefull.
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For example I'm currently playing around with Debian-Packages-files.
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They describe the contents of FTP-Sites. I just have to read them
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once, they could be located anywhere and they might be compressed.
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Debian doesn't use bz2 right now, but if they decide to do so in a
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year or two (when all computers have enough RAM) it would be great if
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a user could still use the old python-scripts. In a perfect world the
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this code ...
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file = sys.stdin.readline()
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fd = urllib.open(file)
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... should work with "text" and with "rdist://some.ipv6.url/text.bz2"
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as input. We might expect from the user that he installs some modules
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(for uncommon things) but it would be nice if they would use the same
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interface.
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Bye
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