RAR functionality

[Wildman]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:42:06 -0500, Benjamin Schollnick wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> Can anyone explain to me why RAR support isn’t available natively in python?
> 
> We have the zipfile and tarfile modules… 
> 
> Yes, there is rarfile and PaTools but they both rely on RAR being available to shell out to…  
> What is it about RAR files that makes it unreasonable to handle in natively in python?
> Licensing?  Bad rar file design?
> 
> 		- Benjamin

RAR is proprietary.

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