[issue17004] Expand zipimport to include other compression methods

[Raymond Hettinger]

New submission from Raymond Hettinger:

Only a little of the existing logic is tied to the zipfile format.  Consider adding support for xz, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, etc.

In particular, xz has better compression, resulting in both space savings and faster load times.

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messages: 180307
nosy: rhettinger
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Expand zipimport to include other compression methods
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.4

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