Re: [PATCH - stgit] Patch to allow import of compressed files

> On 2008-06-09 13:38:55 -0500, Clark Williams wrote:
>
>> This patch allows StGit to directly import compressed (.gz and .bz2)
>> files with reasonable patch names.
>>
>> I do a lot of work on modified kernel trees and usually the first
>> two things imported are a stable update patch followed immediately
>> by an -rt patch, both of which are compressed. With this patch I can
>> just copy the files down directly from kernel.org and import them,
>> rather than having to keep uncompressed copies around.
>>
>> Hey, I'm lazy... :)
>
> Lazy is good. Thanks for the patch!
>
>> +        if filename.endswith(".gz"):
>> +            import gzip
>> +            f = gzip.open(filename)
>> +            pname = filename.replace(".gz", "")
>> +        elif filename.endswith(".bz2"):
>> +            import bz2
>> +            f = bz2.BZ2File(filename, 'r')
>> +            pname = filename.replace(".bz2", "")
>
> Some comments here:
>
>   * By my reading of the docs, the second argument to BZ2File defaults
>     to 'r' anyway, so you could omit it.
>
>   * We try to use single quotes wherever possible (except when triple
>     quoting). You're using a mix ...
>
>   * .replace() will happily replace anywhere in the string. Please
>     consider using stgit.util.strip_suffix() instead.