I would like to add to the command line of both tarfile and zipfile interface some additional options that I believe to be useful. 1. Wildcard filename matching for archiving 2. Recursive archiving (with excludes) 3. Append to archive option 4. Compression Selection 4.1 For zipfile: zip64, bizp2 & lzma (if available) 4.2 For tarfile: document that gz, xz & bz2 are there and determined by ext.
The command-line interface of zipfile and tarfile modules was deliberately kept simple. If you need more complex functionality, just write a script. Python is a programming language! > 1. Wildcard filename matching for archiving This is a work for a shell. Interpreting wildcards by a program breaks compatibility and makes impossible to handle files containing special characters. For example it breaks: python3 -m zipfile -c myzip.zip "The Book [vol. 5].txt". No way. > 2. Recursive archiving (with excludes) Archiving already is recursive. It may be worth to add an option for adding directories not recursively. > 3. Append to archive option May be. I don't know what to do with compressed tar archives. > 4.1 For zipfile: zip64, bizp2 & lzma (if available) Would be nice. And this option could force compression for tarfile. As new features they can be added only in 3.7.
I'm going to agree w/ Serhiy and say thanks to Steve for the idea but for maintainability purposes we should keep the CLI of both modules simple and only for critical operations.
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status: open -> closedresolution: rejectedstage: resolved
