[New-bugs-announce] [issue14371] Add support for bzip2 compression to the zipfile module

Serhiy Storchaka report at bugs.python.org
Tue Mar 20 12:30:41 CET 2012


New submission from Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>:

ZIP File Format Specification (http://www.pkware.com/documents/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT) supports bzip2 compression since at least 2003. Since bzip2 contained in Python standart library, it would be nice to add support for these method in zipfile. This will allow to process more foreign zip files and create more compact distributives.

The proposed patch adds new method ZIP_BZIP2, which is automatically detecting when unpacking and that can be used for packing.

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components: Library (Lib)
files: bzip2_in_zip.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 156394
nosy: storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Add support for bzip2 compression to the zipfile module
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.3
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24956/bzip2_in_zip.patch

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