Other things you can do with dill

dill is intended for one purpose, but it happens to be useful in a few related but separate scenarios. Note that dill does not optimize for these scenarios; they are happy side effects of what dill does and how it does it.

Download any file

dill will happily download uncompressed files for you. While decompressing tarballs is dill’s raison d’etre, it detects uncompressed files and will treat them as such.

Decompress zip files Untested

dill can decompress zip files - but only single files that are compressed. In other words, if you have a