Message 217391 - Python tracker

Message217391

Author	pitrou
Recipients	ezio.melotti, nadeem.vawda, neologix, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, skip.montanaro, tiwilliam
Date	2014-04-28.18:22:01
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Message-id	<1398709321.48.0.427240583039.issue20962@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> So I'd suggest, instead of using an hardcoded value, to simply reuse io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE. > That way, if some day we decide to change it, all user code wil benefit from the change. I don't think io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE makes much sense as a heuristic for the gzip module (or compressed files in general). Perhaps gzip should get its own DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE?

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> So I'd suggest, instead of using an hardcoded value, to simply reuse io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE.
> That way, if some day we decide to change it, all user code wil benefit from the change.

I don't think io.DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE makes much sense as a heuristic for the gzip module (or compressed files in general). Perhaps gzip should get its own DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2014-04-28 18:22:01	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, skip.montanaro, nadeem.vawda, ezio.melotti, neologix, serhiy.storchaka, tiwilliam
2014-04-28 18:22:01	pitrou	set	messageid: <1398709321.48.0.427240583039.issue20962@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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