➜

This issue tracker has been migrated to GitHub, and is currently read-only.
For more information, see the GitHub FAQs in the Python's Developer Guide.

Author pitrou
Recipients dabeaz, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date 2010-12-29.23:14:21
SpamBayes Score 6.878548e-05
Marked as misclassified No
Message-id <1293664459.3709.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-reply-to <1293664339.24.0.49698937532.issue10791@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
Content 
> Do Python devs really view gzip and bz2 as two totally completely
> different animals?  They both have the same functionality and would be
> used for the same kinds of things.   Maybe I'm missing something.

Well, the reality of divergent implementation strategies trumps the
theory of API compatibility :) The approach taken by bz2 is IMO
regrettable, but it's not a ten minutes job to write it again from
scratch.
History
Date User Action Args
2010-12-29 23:14:23pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, r.david.murray, dabeaz
2010-12-29 23:14:21pitroulinkissue10791 messages
2010-12-29 23:14:21pitroucreate