[Python-ideas] Adding ziplib

[Paul Moore]

On 17 February 2015 at 21:17, Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> wrote:
> coming up with common API for these with the key features needed by all is
> interesting, doubly so for someone pedantic enough to get an implementation
> of each correct, but it should be done as a third party library and should
> ideally not use the stdlib zip or tar support at all. Do such libraries
> exist for other languages? Any C++ that could be reused? Is there such a
> thing as high quality code for this kind of task?

In the C world, I think libarchive is the best known "handle all the
formats" library. I've only used the command-line bsdtar application
that's built on it, though, so I don't know what the library API is
like.

Paul