Christian Heimes added the comment: I've checked the implementation of the gzip command. It uses some tricks to get the result size of a compressed file. The bzip2 command doesn't have the ability. lzmainfo can print the actual size of the file but it says "Unknown" for my test file.
Also see #16043 why this would be a useful feature. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15955> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com