Not that I'm aware of.
>
> While it is trivial in a production server, I'm not sure how to do it
> during development. Should I be wrapping my requests/responses
> with Paste's make_gzip_middleware or is there another way ?
Sounds good to me, just use that. You should be able to configure it so that
it's just for development, but on production you use e.g. apache for that.
Diez