[Python-3000] Providing compress/uncompress functions in gzip

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
<abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
> Python has great in-built support for all sorts of text compression
> including bzip, gzip, tarfile and other general purpose modules like
> zlib etc.
>
> Of these, I have a gripe with gzip - it does not provide a simple
> way of compressing/uncompressing a string like the other modules
> to (namely bzip, zlib) at the module level.
>
> It is relatively easy to perform gzip de-compression using the
> GzipFile class and StringIO objects, but compression is not
> that straight-forward.
>
> It would be great for the gzip module to have "compress"
> and "uncompress" functions at the module level without having
> to go through GzipFile every-time.
>
> If it is not too late in the dev-cycle, please consider this.

Please file a feature request ticket on the tracker: http://bugs.python.org.
>
> Thanks
>
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> -Anand
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