From: Dominik Werder <dwerder@...>
Date: 2003-05-19T16:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: gzip cgi compression

> B> StringIO (it's a new feature in 1.8, but for 1.6.8 you can install the 
> '1.6
> B> to 1.8 shim' which is available from RAA)
>
> Well, the question is perhaps : why it don't exist a module function
> Zlib#compress ?

yes, this would be very cool.

but on the other hand, a String is probalby meant to be a static String 
whereas the StringIO is probably more like the StringBuffer of Java.

bye!
Dominik