[stdlib-sig] new package idea: zip

[Leonardo Santagada]

On 09/03/2008, at 19:13, Brett Cannon wrote:

> We have to files related to zip files: zipfile and zipimport. Should
> we bother to consolidate? The problem is the obvious names conflict
> with built-in type  and a keyword, respectively. A possibility is:
>
> zipfile -> zip.filer
> zipimport -> zip.importer
>
> But I don't know if that is really an improvement. What do other  
> people think?


Although both modules somehow work with zip files they do completely  
different thing. Better would be to put zipimport with the import  
machinery and zipfile with tar or something.


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Leonardo Santagada