Path: csiph.com!news.freedyn.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Andreas Tille Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Team uploaded python-lzma - any hint how to deal with xz compressed files when using Python3 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Wed Oct 24 17:44:25 2018 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/16484 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20181024174409.2lmomtoo67w7yuo5@an3as.eu Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 26 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:44:09 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <20181024174409.2lmomtoo67w7yuo5@an3as.eu> X-Original-References: <20181023180515.cfey3q4njptzi76g@an3as.eu> <1540328266.2974994.1552239176.21A35310@webmail.messagingengine.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:11050 Hi Chris, On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 04:57:46PM -0400, Chris Lamb wrote: > > Since I can not really imagine that it should be hard to deal > > natively with XZ compressed files when using Python3: Am I > > missing something and there is a competing module? > > I am not sure what you are asking here, sorry. > > Something to do with the Debian packaging or whether there are > other Python libraries for dealing with compressed files? > > If the latter, then debian-python is probably off-topic for such > general Python questions, but diffoscope happens to be using > libarchive. I sneaked in some packaging relevant information (python-lzma packaging) to take the freedom to ask some OT-question (without marking it OT). Your hint to libarchive was helpful. Thank you Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de