lzw.py

[Andy Robinson]

"Dinu C. Gherman" <gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de> wrote:

>Patrick Phalen wrote:
>> 
>> PNG, (zlib loads and save .png files) sounds like what you want. 
>> It was written to avoid that problem.
>
>How do you know what I want? ;-) I wanted to see how LZW works
>and code it. This is what I did. I'm just frustrated that I may
>not share the code with anybody...


I think that decompression is free, but you'll have to ask them to be
sure.  And I'd imagine you only need to compression for your own
satisfaction to prove the obvious round trip 

Getting it working is an impressive achievement - I hope they let you
share it...

Regards,

Andy