Gzip decompressor in ~300 lines of readable Python

• tiralabra

  1 4 4.2 Python

  gzip decompressor in ~300 lines of readable python

• pyflate

  2 27 10.0 Python

  Pure Python zlib/gzip/bzip2 decompessor/bitstream dumper, plus additional utilities

The code looks clean and it works. It's fun to implement your own understandable parser. After doing such an exercise, suddenly a seemingly complex file format doesn't look like such a black box anymore. When I implemented my decompressor, I also looked at https://github.com/pfalcon/pyflate , to understand and verify the inner gzip/deflate RFC workings. Pyflate is also pretty small, especially after removing the bzip2 code, after which only ~450 lines are left. Laiho's code seems more readable, though.

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