[New-bugs-announce] [issue3492] Zlib compress/decompress functions returning bytearray

[Anand B Pillai]

New submission from Anand B Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com>:

>>> import zlib
>>> s='This is a string'
>>> sc=zlib.compress(s)
>>> sc
bytearray(b'x\x9c\x0b\xc9\xc8,V\x00\xa2D\x85\xe2\x92\xa2\xcc\xbct\x00/\xc2\x05\xcd')
>>> zlib.decompress(sc)
bytearray(b'This is a string')
>>>

This is wrong behavior as compress functions should return byte
,not a bytearray. Same for decompress.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 70625
nosy: pythonhacker
severity: normal
status: open
title: Zlib compress/decompress functions returning bytearray
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.0

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