[Python-3000] Remove TarFileCompat from tarfile.py

[Guido van Rossum]

Sounds good to me. Less cruft is the tagline for Py3k!

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Lars Gustäbel <lars at gustaebel.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I just had a look at issue 3039 that reports a bug in tarfile.py's
> TarFileCompat class and I came to the conclusion that I really would like to
> remove the TarFileCompat class from Python 3.0.
>
> Some details: The ZipFile and TarFile classes both have very different
> interfaces. The original intention behind TarFileCompat was to have a second
> TarFile class with a ZipFile-like interface, so that both could be used in the
> same context.
>
> In retrospect, the addition of TarFileCompat has never been a good idea. There
> are few use cases and I think only a few people actually know that it exists.
> The class is small and has little functionality which can be accomplished
> easily without it. It has to be synchronized with ZipFile whenever that
> changes. It has no unittests, so that the TarFile.writestr() method has been
> broken for over two years without anyone noticing. Recently, TarFile's
> extract() and extractall() methods were added to ZipFile's interface.
>
> I know that this is a minor issue, but I don't want to remove TarFileCompat
> without having asked for opinions before (if there are any).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Lars Gustäbel
> lars at gustaebel.de
>
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