As an only semi-joke, I have created a module on GH that meets the needs of this discussion (using the spelling I think are most elegant):
https://github.com/DavidMertz/RLE On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > 11.06.17 09:17, Neal Fultz пише: > >> * other people have been false positive and wanted a SQL-type group >> by, but got burned >> * hence the warnings in the docs. >> > > This wouldn't help if people don't read the docs. > > Also, if someone rewrote zip in pure python, would many people actually >> notice a slow down vs network latency, disk IO, etc? >> > > Definitely yes. > > RLE is a building block just like bisect. >> > > This is very specific building block. And if ZIP compression be rewrote in > pure Python it wouldn't use > > FYI, there are multiple compression methods supported in ZIP files, but > the zipmodule module implements not all of them. In particular simple RLE > based methods are not implemented (they almost not used in real world now). > I suppose that if the zipmodule module implements these algorithms it > wouldn't use any general RLE implementation. > > https://pkware.cachefly.net/webdocs/casestudies/APPNOTE.TXT > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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