Module for reading tarfiles?

[Andrew Kuchling]

Jeff Bauer <jbauer at rubic.com> writes:
> Perhaps some version of the code could make it into the
> standard distribution.

It looks like there's been quite a bit of wheel-reinventing; /F, DC,
Hintze, and http://phobos.fs.tum.de/PyTar/ (a wrapper around a library
for reading tar files).  This is for the catalog, which would need to
be able to unpack both tar archives and .zip files; zipfile.py is
already there, but tarfile.py should be added, too. (It's too late for
2.1, though.)  

I'll look at all the different versions; thanks everyone!

--amk