Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: tarfile vs zipfile Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 19:47:33 +1300 Lines: 11 Message-ID: References: <97542b34-5381-48c2-93bb-755d4ac49369@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Bcti2eKw5JKYlfj2D6KfmAAXa+Zk3KWFzZIqP6zyG6pf9Pn1Uy Cancel-Lock: sha1:+x1mNf2YebvUe824iZmLllHqvMU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <97542b34-5381-48c2-93bb-755d4ac49369@googlegroups.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:86819 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