[Python-Dev] Re: Planning to drop gzip compression for future releases.

[Charles Cazabon]

Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote:
> 
> .zip is the only one of these 3 formats that allows you to decompress a
> few files without expanding the entire archive.  This feature is useful
> to me at least (and makes up for the larger size).

tar supports that as well, and with better compression when paired with bzip2.
Hint:  tar xzf archive [file] [...]

Charles
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