[Numpy-discussion] numpy.savez does /not/ compress!?

[Hans Meine]

On Tuesday 08 June 2010 12:11:28 Pauli Virtanen wrote:
> ti, 2010-06-08 kello 12:03 +0200, Hans Meine kirjoitti:
> > I would prefer to actually offer compression to the user.  Unfortunately,
> > adding another argument to this function will never be 100% secure, since
> > currently, all kwargs will be saved into the zip, so it could count as
> > behaviour change.
> 
> Yep, that's the only question to be resolved.

Actually, one could also briefly think about whether the default should be 
ZIP_DEFLATE (if available).

Apart from that, what should we(/I) do to get my patch in?  (It wouldn't be my 
first one which goes into the bitrot department..)

Have a nice day,
  Hans