[ python-Bugs-849046 ] gzip.GzipFile is slow

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Bugs item #849046, was opened at 2003-11-25 16:45
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Ronald Oussoren (ronaldoussoren)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: gzip.GzipFile is slow

Initial Comment:
gzip.GzipFile is significantly (an order of a magnitude) 
slower than using the gzip binary. I've been bitten by this 
several times, and have replaced "fd = gzip.open('somefile', 
'r')" by "fd = os.popen('gzcat somefile', 'r')" on several 
occassions.

Would a patch that implemented GzipFile in C have any 
change of being accepted?

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