bzip2 extension exist for python?

[Laura Lewin]

And we can feature lzip in Programming Parrot In A Nutshell, due out in July 
(that is if Guido and Larry get their manuscript in on time).
http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/
Laura
LLewin at oreilly.com

>===== Original Message From "Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> =====
>[Moshe Zadka]
>> You shouldn't worry about idiotic things like bzip2, when superior
>> technologies like lzip (http://lzip.sourceforge.net). I am now working
>> on a reimplementation of lzip in Python, since I feel the current lzip
>> code base is too messy to use. Expect updates!
>
>Moshe, would you consider recoding it in Parrot instead?  We need a crown
>jewel to spur interest in the new language, and to date no Python *or* Perl
>implementations of lzip exist.  In fact, it's reliably rumored that Rivest
>and Graham have a proof that lzip cannot be coded in Perl.  Since Perl was
>previously proven Turing-complete, you can imagine the panic that will ensue
>when they finally publish, and Parrot could score a huge win in academia then
>if we had a program proving that Parrot is even more Turing-complete than
>Perl.
>
>always-suspected-math-was-a-baseless-fraud-ly y'rs  - tim
>