python-bz2 module

Description

The python-bz2 module provides a comprehensive interface for the bz2 compression library. It implements a complete file interface, one shot (de)compression functions, and types for sequential (de)compression.

Features

python-bz2 provides the following features:

• Support for Python newstyle classes, allowing subclassing;
• BZ2File implements complete file interface, including readline(), readlines(), xreadlines(), writelines(), seek(), etc;
• BZ2File implements emulated seek() support;
• BZ2File developed inheriting builtin file type (isinstance(BZ2File(), file) == 1);
• Sequential (de)compression supported by BZ2Compressor and BZ2Decompressor types;
• One shot (de)compression supported by compress() and decompress() functions;
• Complete inline documentation;
• Thread safety uses individual locking mechanism;
• Comprehensive unit tests.

Documentation

Here is the pydoc generated documentation.

License

This module is licensed under the terms of LGPL, read LICENSE for further information.

Some portions of code included in the module were based on code included in Python. These parts are clearly stated in the code, and are copyrighted by Python Software Foundation, and licensed under PSF's own license. Read LICENSE-PSF for further information.

Download

New versions of python-bz2 can be found on SourceForge's download area.

Credits

The python-bz2 module was developed by Gustavo Niemeyer.

Some portions of code included in the module were based on code included in Python. These parts are clearly stated in the code, and are copyrighted by Python Software Foundation, and licensed under PSF's own license. Read LICENSE-PSF for further information.