[ python-Bugs-853061 ] Inconsistent behavior of compressing the BZip2 format

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Bugs item #853061, was opened at 2003-12-03 03:43
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: George Yoshida (quiver)
Assigned to: Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer)
Summary: Inconsistent behavior of compressing the BZip2 format

Initial Comment:
There are three ways to compress data in bz2 but they 
don't handle an empty string same way.
BZ2File and compress can accept an empty string but 
BZ2Compressor raises ValueError.

>>> import bz2
>>> bz2f = bz2.BZ2File('test', 'w')
>>> bz2f.write('')
>>> bz2f.close()
>>> bz2.compress('')
'BZh9\x17rE8P\x90\x00\x00\x00\x00'
>>> bz2c = bz2.BZ2Compressor()
>>> bz2c.compress('')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
ValueError: the bz2 library has received wrong 
parameters



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>Comment By: Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer)
Date: 2004-02-13 20:27

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Indeed, it should be allowed. I'll fix that.

Thanks for your report!

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