[Python-Dev] LZMA support has landed

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

2011/11/29 Nadeem Vawda <nadeem.vawda at gmail.com>

> I'm pleased to announce that as of changeset 74d182cf0187, the
> standard library now includes support for the LZMA compression
> algorithm


Congratulations!


> I'd like to ask the owners of (non-Windows) buildbots to install the
> XZ Utils development headers so that they can build the new module.
>

And don't worry about Windows builbots, they will automatically download
the XZ prebuilt binaries from the usual place.
(svn export http://svn.python.org/projects/external/xz-5.0.3)

Next step: add support for tar.xz files (issue5689)...

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Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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