zlib compressionobj use: what am I missing?

[Titus Brown]

In article <9lhf5e023rl at enews3.newsguy.com>,
Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
>"Titus Brown" <t at chabry.caltech.edu> wrote in message
>news:9lhcom$8ao$1 at chabry.caltech.edu...
>> Hi all, I'm working on a patch to the zlibmodule, but I can't get this
>> bit of code for testing compression objects to work at all.  Should it?
>> If not, what am I doing wrong??
>
>>     zlib.decompress(compdata)
>
>Only thing I can think of, is you're throwing the result of decompress
>away -- with a print here, this works fine for me.

As it turns out, my development environment was screwing up and I was
actually accessing my (then-)broken version.  sigh.

--titus