zlib.decompress fails, zlib.decompressobj succeeds - bug or feature?

[Matthew Brett]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

> > If instead I do this:
>
> > out = zlib.decompressobj().decompress(data)
>
> How about:
>
> d = zlib.decompressobj()
> out = d.decompress(data) + d.flush()

Do you mean, that you would then expect the decompressobj method to
fail as well?

But, no, d.flush() returns the empty string after decompressing
``data``.

Thanks again,

Matthew