Dec. 20, 1999
7:25 p.m.
"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:
I guess it would be ok to waste space. You could provide a .cleanup() or .rewrite() method that takes care of reorganizing the file to fill up the gaps.
OK, adding a duplicate name replaces the old file.
Well the module seems to work just fine with compression on, so disallowing it or issuing a warning would reduce its value, IMHO.
Yes compression works, but 90% of Python installations don't have zlib, so it is an ERROR to create archives with compression when these archives are distributed to other sites.
How about making compression a boolean value and then converting any true value to 8 ?
It would close the door to future or other compression methods. Currently the method must be 0 or 8 or a traceback will result. JimA