Gzip module does not support Unix compressed .Z files [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

dieter dieter at handshake.de
Mon Jul 4 04:00:58 EDT 2016


"Owen Brandon" <Brandon.Owen at ga.gov.au> writes:

> I have a query regarding the support of decompression for Unix compressed .Z files in Python's gzip module. The gzip system utility supports this using the '-d' switch, but the python module does not.

When I am right, then the "zipfile" module handles ".Z" compressed files.




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