compressing a bunch of id's to construct a url

gistfile1.py

import random
import base64
import zlib

random_ids = [''.join([random.choice(string.ascii_lowercase) for x in range(8)]) for n in range(1000)]

long_string = ','.join(random_ids)

b64_string = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(long_string)

compressed_string = zlib.compress(long_string, 9)

b64_compressed_string = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(compressed_string)

len(long_string)
len(b64_string)
len(compressed_string)
len(b64_compressed_string)