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An elementary Python data compression question

aisci — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:21:16 +0600

Hi all,
Though I don't work in data compression, but for learning purpose only I ran a program very similar to the one given in version specific tutorial from www.python.org. (ch 11, tut.pdf). The two programs are:

PROGRAM 1

import zlib
s = "witch which has which witches wrist watch"
print "Original String is ::%s:: and length of the string is ::%d::" %(s,len(s))
t = zlib.compress(s)
print "Compressed String is ::%s:: and length of the string is ::%d::" %(t,len(t))
print "Decompressed String is ::%s:: and length of the decompressed string is ::%d::" %(zlib.decompress(t),len(zlib.decompress(t)))

PROGRAM 2

import zlib
s = "witch which has which witches wrist watch"
print "Original String is ::%s:: and length of the string is ::%d::" %(s,len(s))
t = zlib.compress(s)
print "Compressed String is ::%s:: and length of the string is ::%d::" %(t,len(t))
print "Decompressed String is ::%s:: and length of the decompressed string is ::%d::" %(zlib.decompress(t),len(zlib.decompress(t)))

Now the problem is that:
in program2, the 'len(t)', i.e. length of the compressed string is greater than length of the original string!!! In program 1, this 'apparent anomaly' doesn't occur, and this is the string used in the python.org tutorial.

Can anybody provide an explanation? At this point, I don't want to read a few hundred pages on data compression to find out the answer.

Thanks in advance,
Abhishek Pathak.

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