[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

> 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?
[...]

There are a couple of implementations around. Shouldn't be hard to
add some to the standard library. OTOH, I'm not sure if any of them
include GNU extensions. I wouldn't like to see a module in the standard
library without them.

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Gustavo Niemeyer

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