On 2013-10-30 21:30, Joshua Landau wrote: > started talking about compressing *random data*
If it's truly random bytes, as long as you don't need *the same* random data, you can compress it quite easily. Lossy compression is acceptable for images, so why not random files? :-) import os inname = "random.txt" namez = inname + '.rnz' # compress the file with open(outnamez, 'w') as f: f.write(os.stat(inname).st_size) # uncompress the file with open(namez) as f: size = int(f.read()) with open('/dev/random', 'rb') as rnd, open(inname, 'wb') as out: for i in range(size): out.write(rnd.read(1)) There are optimizations that can be made, and I didn't make it run on Win32, but I leave those as exercises for the reader. That said, this compresses *remarkably* well for large files ;-) -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list