[Python-Dev] Zipfile needs?

[Scott David Daniels]

I'm hoping to add BZIP2 compression to zipfile for 2.5.  My primary
motivation is that Project Gutenberg seems to be starting to use BZIP2
compression for some of its zips.  What other wish list things do
people around here have for zipfile?  I thought I'd collect input here
and make a PEP.

I can open a pseudo-file for STORED files in binary read mode, for
example, to allow reading zip-in-zip files without fully occupying
memory.

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