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authorPetar Petrov <slackalaxy@gmail.com>2017-04-17 00:09:04 +0100
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+This Python module provides a xopen function that works like the built-
+in open function, but can also deal with compressed files. Supported
+compression formats are gzip, bzip2 and xz. They are automatically
+recognized by their file extensions .gz, .bz2 or .xz.
+
+The focus is on being as efficient as possible on all supported Python
+versions. For example, simply using gzip.open is slow in older Pythons,
+and it is a lot faster to use a gzip subprocess.
+
+This module has originally been developed as part of the cutadapt tool
+that is used in bioinformatics to manipulate sequencing data. It has
+been in successful use within that software for a few years.