[New-bugs-announce] [issue5689] please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module

[Matthias Klose]

New submission from Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org>:

GNU tar now supports lzma compression as a compression method. Please
consider adding lzma support to the tarfile module (either by using the
external lzma program or by adding a lzma extension to the standard
library).

lzma extension at http://svn.fancycode.com/repos/python/pylzma/trunk/

lzma is used in many tools (7zip, dpkg, rpm), offers faster
decompression than bzip2, slower compression than gzip and bzip2.

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components: Extension Modules
messages: 85403
nosy: doko
severity: normal
status: open
title: please support lzma compression as an extension and in the tarfile module
type: feature request

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