compress string of data

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Gerrit Holl <gerrit at nl.linux.org> (GH) wrote:

>> How i could compress string of data?.
>>>> import zlib
>>>> zlib.compress("Hello, world")
GH> 'x\x9c\xf3H\xcd\xc9\xc9\xd7Q(\xcf/\xcaI\x01\x00\x1b\xd4\x04i'

GH> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-zlib.html

Waw, that compresses it from 12 bytes to 20 bytes :=)
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