[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Gustavo Niemeyer writes:
 > Btw, is there any intention of including python-bz2? If so, it should be
 > checked out in those platforms I have no access to.

Is python-bz2 a bzip2 module, similar to the zlib module?  I think it
would be nice to have the more space-efficient algorithm available,
but I really don't know how many people would use it.  In the end,
most people seem to want to work with ZIP (or JAR) files, and zlib
supports that well enough.


  -Fred

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