[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library

[Thomas Heller]

> but I really don't know how many people would use it.  In the end,
> most people seem to want to work with ZIP (or JAR) files, and zlib
> supports that well enough.

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?

Not that I could do it, since I'm a windows only geek ;-)
I only want to read/extract them.

Thomas