On Mar 06 2015, Martin Panter <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: > Still to do: Need to find a better home for the _DecompressReader and > _BaseStream classes. Currently it lives in “lzma”, but apparently it > is possible for any of the gzip, bz2, lzma modules to not be > importable, so it would have to live elsewhere. Yes. > Possible options are > the io module, or a brand new internal module > (e.g. Lib/_compression.py). Thoughts? I think a new internal module would be the right choice, but I don't know what needs to be done to properly add it to the build system. So for now I'd just put it in the io module and wait for a core committer to complain :-). Best, -Nikolaus -- GPG encrypted emails preferred. Key id: 0xD113FCAC3C4E599F Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.«