[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:01:45 -0400

Thomas Heller writes:

Hm. I also want to work with tar and tar.gz files. Is there any intend to add a tarfile module to the Python library?

Several tar libraries have been written, and there have been several requests for something like this to be more readily available. I found some old links in mail archives, but they were pretty old, and not all worked.

There's a TAR writer in Zope: http://cvs.zope.org/Zope2/lib/python/App/tar.py

I don't know if a TAR reader is currently available, though.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation