ANN: python-bz2 1.0

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

This is the README file of python-bz2.

Description
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The python bz2 module provides a comprehensive interface for
the bz2 compression library. It implements a complete file
interface, one shot (de)compression functions, and types for
sequential (de)compression.


Features
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python-bz2 provides the following features:

o  Support for Python newstyle classes, allowing subclassing;
o  BZ2File implements complete file interface, including readline(),
   readlines(), xreadlines(), writelines(), seek(), etc;
o  BZ2File implements emulated seek() support;
o  BZ2File developed inheriting builtin file type
   (isinstance(BZ2File(), file) == 1);
o  Sequential (de)compression supported by BZ2Compressor and
   BZ2Decompressor types;
o  One shot (de)compression supported by compress() and decompress()
   functions;
o  Complete inline documentation;
o  Thread safety uses individual locking mechanism;
o  Comprehensive unit tests.


License
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This module is licensed under the terms of LGPL, read LICENSE for
further information.

Some portions of code included in the module were based on code included in
Python. These parts are clearly stated in the code, and are copyrighted by
Python Software Foundation, and licensed under PSF's own license. Read
LICENSE-PSF for further information.


New Versions
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Information on how to retrieve new versions of python-bz2 can be
found on http://python-bz2.sf.net


Credits
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The python-bz2 module was developed by Gustavo Niemeyer.

Some portions of code included in the module were based on code included in
Python. These parts are clearly stated in the code, and are copyrighted by
Python Software Foundation, and licensed under PSF's own license. Read
LICENSE-PSF for further information.


-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer

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