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[Python-Dev] LZW support in tarfile ?

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> But, there's an option in Distutils.make_archive to create a tarball
> using the "compress" [1] program rather than gzip or bzip2.
> Using tar -Z, it will pipe it to the compress program if present. This
> program implements the LZW algorithm [2].

As everybody else says: it might be best to just remove that option.
For compatibility, perhaps deprecate it in 2.7 and 3.1, and remove in
in 3.2.

Regards,
Martin

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