pure python data compression (zip)

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:47:40 +0200, Rene Maurer <rmnet at mailc.net> wrote:
>Hallo
>
>I wonder if there are any pure python implementations available/known
>for the zip (or any other) data compression... As far as I know
>python's zlib uses http://www.zlib.net/, which is written in
>C. Unfortunately this is not solution for me, because my target "only"
>has a python interpreter....
>
>I have "googled" for a while, but I don't have found anything useful.

What is your target, that it can only run programs written in Python,
not C?  And what Python interpreter are you using?

Jean-Paul