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[Python-Dev] LZW support in tarfile ?

[Python-Dev] LZW support in tarfile ? [Python-Dev] LZW support in tarfile ?Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun May 17 15:19:44 CEST 2009 
Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> But I was wondering if we should we add a LZW support in tarinfo,
> besides gzip and bzip2 ?
> 
> Although this compression standard doesn't seem very used these days,

It would be more useful to add LZMA / xz support.
I don't think compress is used anymore, except perhaps on old legacy systems.
On my Linux system, I have lots of .gz, .bz2 and .lzma files, but absolutely no
.Z file.

Regards

Antoine.
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