Yelp/mrjob — Issue #266: treat bz2 as an optional library
Author: davidmarin
Created: 2011-11-11 22:35:45+00:00
State: open
Labels: Cleanup

Python has had the `bz2` module since 2.3, but it's not installed if you compile Python on a machine without `libbz2.so`; see [this StackOverflow thread](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/812781/pythons-bz2-module-not-compiled-by-default).

Bz2 support is not critical to `mrjob`, so we should treat it as an optional module.