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>> Not meaning to sound petty, but wouldn't it be common etiquette to
>> retain some original copyright notice from original code intact..?
>
> It seemed to me that Nadeem had rewritten everything from scratch. Is
> there any code of yours in the current module?
That is correct. Based on my experience with the bz2 module, rewriting
from scratch seemed to make more sense.
>> Oh well, I thought that I'd still earned a note with some slight
> credit at least
>
> I completely agree. Sometimes people get credit for simple bug fixes
> (count me among them) so the author of the first working implementation
> deserves some recognition IMO.
Of course. How does this look?
 diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
 --- a/Misc/ACKS
 +++ b/Misc/ACKS
 @@ -502,6 +502,7 @@
 Peter van Kampen
 Rafe Kaplan
 Jacob Kaplan-Moss
 +Per Øyvind Karlsen
 Lou Kates
 Hiroaki Kawai
 Sebastien Keim
 diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
 --- a/Misc/NEWS
 +++ b/Misc/NEWS
 @@ -400,6 +400,7 @@
 -------
 
 - Issue #6715: Add a module 'lzma' for compression using the LZMA algorithm.
 + Thanks to Per Øyvind Karlsen for the initial implementation.
 
 - Issue #13487: Make inspect.getmodule robust against changes done to
 sys.modules while it is iterating over it.