Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions `gzip.compress`
and `gzip.decompress`.  Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
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 Jim St. Pierre
 Dan Pierson
 Martijn Pieters
+Anand B. Pillai
 François Pinard
 Zach Pincus
 Michael Piotrowski
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+- Issue #3488: Provide convenient shorthand functions ``gzip.compress``
+  and ``gzip.decompress``.  Original patch by Anand B. Pillai.
+
 - Issue #8807: poplib.POP3_SSL class now accepts a context parameter, which is a
   ssl.SSLContext object allowing bundling SSL configuration options,
   certificates and private keys into a single (potentially long-lived)