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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 9 May 2010 09:25:16 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?

Yes.

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

Hmm, then it's a bug. Can you report it to http://bugs.python.org ?

Thank you

Antoine.