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From: tratt at dcs.kcl.ac.uk (Laurence Tratt)
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:54:49 +0100
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Subject: bzip2 module for Python
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Message-ID: <d3bea2f548.tratt@tratt.freeserve.co.uk>
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X-UID: 199
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In message <87zp43gaac.fsf at illusion.tui-net>
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Paul Kunysch <illume at gmx.net> wrote:
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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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pyBZlib handles .bz2 files 'transparently' as such, in that the inputs and
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outputs to the bzip2 library are simply standard .bz2 files. The two simple
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test files included with pyBZlib demonstrate this by slurping .bz2 files
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straight into the libraries methods :)
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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? Would you also want it to
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automatically untar files?
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Laurie
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