Re: tarfile vs zipfile

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Seth P <seth-p@outlook.com> writes:

> Is there a reason tarfile and zipfile don't use the same method/member
> names, where it makes sense?

One likely explanation is that the modules's APIs were designed by
different people unaware of the work of the other.

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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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