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

Anthony Baxter Anthony Baxter anthony@interlink.com.au
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:17:08 +1000

Guido van Rossum wrote > 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? Dunno, but it's a pretty simple format, so should be easy. Maybe one of the rookie developers would like to tackle this?

If it's wanted, I have a cpio reader class somewhere that could be thrown in. Note that (from memory) it only handles some of the many, many different cpio formats...

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