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Re: tarfile vs zipfile

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From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject Re: tarfile vs zipfile
Date Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:47:33 +1300
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Seth P wrote:
> Is there a reason tarfile and zipfile don't use the same method/member names,
> where it makes sense?

There was talk in the python-dev mailing list recently
about creating a unified interface to the various
archiving modules. You might like to keep an eye on
what's happening there.

-- 
Greg

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tarfile vs zipfile Seth P <seth-p@outlook.com> - 2015-03-02 17:01 -0800
  Re: tarfile vs zipfile Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-03-03 12:12 +1100
  Re: tarfile vs zipfile Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-03-02 21:29 -0500
  Re: tarfile vs zipfile Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-03-03 19:47 +1300
  Re: tarfile vs zipfile Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-03-03 07:26 +0000
    Re: tarfile vs zipfile Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-03-03 23:39 +1300
      Re: tarfile vs zipfile Marcos Almeida Azevedo <marcos.al.azevedo@gmail.com> - 2015-03-04 09:12 +0800

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