zlib interface semi-broken

[Scott David Daniels]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> writes:
>> I suspect that is why such an interface never came up (If
>> you can clone states, then you can say: "compress this, then use the
>> resultant state to compress/decompress others." 
> 
> The zlib C interface supports something like that.  It is just not
> exported to the python application.  It should be.
Right, we are gathering ideas we'd like to see available to the Python
programmer in the new zlib / bz2 agglomeration that we are thinking of
building / proposing.

--Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org