On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
... Some notes on the API: ---------------------- * I would find it more convenient if the filename and mode would be constructor parameters, e.g.
zfile = zipfile('myfile.zip','rb')
with compression defaulting to 8 rather than 0 (most zip files will be deflated since this is the ZIP default).
* Also, I would like a method much like the os.listdir() which returns a list of filenames rather than print it to stdout.
The above two items were in my ramble, just not as clear as MAL :-)
* .is_zipfile() should probably be a separate function: it doesn't use any of the class' features.
Ah! Good call. It is even more important to shift it out if the constructor now opens a file. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/