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Re: Team uploaded python-lzma - any hint how to deal with xz compressed files when using Python3

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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. 

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Team uploaded python-lzma - any hint how to deal with xz compressed  files when using Python3 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-10-23 20:10 +0200
  Re: Team uploaded python-lzma - any hint how to deal with xz compressed  files when using Python3 Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> - 2018-10-23 23:00 +0200
    Re: Team uploaded python-lzma - any hint how to deal with xz  compressed files when using Python3 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2018-10-24 19:50 +0200
  Re: Team uploaded python-lzma - any hint how to deal with xz  compressed files when using Python3 Tiziano Zito <opossumnano@gmail.com> - 2018-10-23 23:20 +0200
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