On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> > Sort of as you suggest, you could build a Huffman encoding for a > > representative run of data, save that tree off somewhere, and then use > > it for all your future encoding/decoding. > > Zlib is better than Huffman in my experience, and Python's zlib module > already has the right entry points. > > Isn't zlib kind of dated? Granted, it's newer than Huffman, but there's been bzip2 and xz since then, among numerous others. Here's something for xz: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/xz_mod/trunk/ An xz module is in the CPython 3.3 alphas - the above module wraps it if available, otherwise it uses ctypes or a pipe to an xz binary.. And I believe bzip2 is in the standard library for most versions of CPython.
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