RE: Gzip module does not support Unix compressed .Z files [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2016-07-04 Thread Owen Brandon
important challenges -Original Message- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list-bounces+brandon.owen=ga.gov...@python.org] On Behalf Of Robert Kern Sent: Tuesday, 5 July 2016 12:18 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Re: Gzip module does not support Unix compressed .Z files [SEC=UNOFFI

Re: Gzip module does not support Unix compressed .Z files [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2016-07-04 Thread Robert Kern
On 2016-07-04 09:00, dieter wrote: "Owen Brandon" writes: I have a query regarding the support of decompression for Unix compressed .Z files in Python's gzip module. The gzip system utility supports this using the '-d' switch, but the python module does not. When I am right, then the "zipf

Re: Gzip module does not support Unix compressed .Z files [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2016-07-04 Thread dieter
"Owen Brandon" writes: > I have a query regarding the support of decompression for Unix compressed .Z > files in Python's gzip module. The gzip system utility supports this using > the '-d' switch, but the python module does not. When I am right, then the "zipfile" module handles ".Z" compress

Gzip module does not support Unix compressed .Z files [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2016-07-03 Thread Owen Brandon
Hello, I have a query regarding the support of decompression for Unix compressed .Z files in Python's gzip module. The gzip system utility supports this using the '-d' switch, but the python module does not. Obviously this isn't an actual bug, as the Python module is an implementation of the z