[Python-Dev] What to do with our Zip code?

[Jeremy, on our Zip code]

I'm all for improving the code and getting it out. The real problem is that interfaces have been glommed on for every new use of a Zip file. (You want to read one off a socket and extract files before you've got the whole thing? No problem! Add a new class.) We need to figure out the common patterns for using the archives and write a new set of interfaces to support that.

If we gave you the code we currently have, would someone else in this forum be willing to redesign it? Eventually it would become part of the Python distribution. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)