[issue7471] GZipFile.readline too slow

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> How can I put this without being an ass? Hell, I'm no good at diplomacy
> - the gzip module blows chunks - if I can shell out to a standard unix
> util and it uses a tiny fraction of the memory to do the same job the
> module is inherently broken no matter how pretty it's code looks.

Well, let's say it is suboptimal. But it's certainly ok if you don't
have any tight performance constraints.
In any case, it won't improve until someone proposes a patch :-)

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