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

Thomas Heller thomas.heller@ion-tof.com
Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:06:37 +0200

From: "Fred L. Drake, Jr." <fdrake@acm.org>

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. Currently I use one by Lars Gust�bel http://www.gustaebel.de/lars/tarfile. It is pretty new, but according to the docs seems pretty feature complete (but then, what do I know...). Lars even added back a zipfile-compatible interface on my suggestion.

There are a handful others also, but I haven't used them.

Thomas