[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

Thomas Heller writes:
 > 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?

Several tar libraries have been written, and there have been several
requests for something like this to be more readily available.  I
found some old links in mail archives, but they were pretty old, and
not all worked.

There's a TAR writer in Zope:
http://cvs.zope.org/Zope2/lib/python/App/tar.py

I don't know if a TAR reader is currently available, though.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation