[Python-ideas] Run length encoding

[Terry Reedy]

On 6/10/2017 11:27 PM, Joshua Morton wrote:

> Neal: As for why zip (at first I thought you meant the zip function, not 
> the zip compression scheme) is included and rle is not, zip is (or was), 
> I believe, used as part of python's packaging infrastructure, hopefully 
> someone else can correct me if that's untrue.

cpython can run from a zipped version of the stdlib.
In fact, sys.path contains 'C:\\Programs\\Python36\\python36.zip'

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Terry Jan Reedy