[Python-3000] Providing compress/uncompress functions in gzip

[Antoine Pitrou]

Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpillai <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> I think being able to send gzip compressed strings directly would be useful
> for applications which require to send gzip data over the wire without
> having to write to files and read-back.

I also think gzip.compress() and gzip.decompress() would be an useful addition.

Regards

Antoine.