Guilherme Polo writes (23.10.2007): > 2007/10/23, Rene Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I wonder if there are any pure python implementations available/known >> for the zip (or any other) data compression... As far as I know >> python's zlib uses http://www.zlib.net/, which is written in >> C. Unfortunately this is not solution for me, because my target "only" >> has a python interpreter.... > > I have implemented Huffman in Python, it is not very fast yet. Further > improvements would requires writing some parts in C and use as a > module in Python, or maybe I just didn't think enough on how to > improve the python code. > > If you don't know how huffman works, you may read this: > http://gpolo.ath.cx:81/implements/huffman > I have described the improvements I have done to this "teaching > version" here: http://gpolo.ath.cx:81/texts/opc
Thank you very much. I will have a look this and try it out. Regards, René -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list