if i was seriously going to use the package, i'd install it with pip, too. this is probably a good example why. i think it was a leftover from playing around (not serious usage) in an earlier Ubuntu.
i discovered these files while testing a script (zhash.py) that does a hash of the uncompressed form of files in a tree. it used my not-yet-released module named zopen that compresses or uncompresses files based on the file name extension(s). it also uses my ftrgen module to flatten the file tree. i wanted to give something big to do some long timing so i ran it for /usr. when writing a file, zopen() can write to a temporary file name and move the temporary name to the target name given when it is closed.
i discovered these files while testing a script (zhash.py) that does a hash of the uncompressed form of files in a tree. it used my not-yet-released module named zopen that compresses or uncompresses files based on the file name extension(s). it also uses my ftrgen module to flatten the file tree. i wanted to give something big to do some long timing so i ran it for /usr. when writing a file, zopen() can write to a temporary file name and move the temporary name to the target name given when it is closed.
compressing_file = zopen('foo.gz.bz2.xz','w',tempname=True)if the file name has multiple compression extensions (sometimes useful) it handles them. one hazard i ran into was a file with a few hundred trillion binary zeros that double compressed very small. it had no idea that this would take most of a day to uncompress. compressing it took a whole weekend.
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What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.
What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two languages? Bilingual. One language? American.