[issue6715] xz compressor support

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Having "Christophe Simonis" in the nosy list is precluding NOSY
> changes. I guess the space is causing problems. Should we forbid
> spaces in usernames (maybe provided by OpenID, who knows)???

Please report this in the meta-tracker (link on the left).

> What do we need to progress in this issue?.
> 
> A rewrite to use Python 3 IO facilities?.

See Nadeem's recent work on the bz2 module.

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