R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: Matt: if you want to learn the file format and propose a patch, I think it would be OK for gzip to duck-type the file object and only raise an error when a seek is explicitly requested. After all, that's the way real file objects work. A quick glance at the code, though, indicates this isn't a trivial refactoring. I think it should be possible in theory since one can pipe a gzipped file into gunzip, and I don't think it buffers the whole file to unzip it...but I don't know for sure. Another issue is that if the patch substantially changes the memory/performance footprint it might get rejected on that basis.
If you (or anyone else) wants to work on a patch let me know and I'll reopen the issue. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray type: -> behavior versions: -Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue9664> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
