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Re: tarfile vs zipfile

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: tarfile vs zipfile
Date 2015-03-02 21:29 -0500
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On 3/2/2015 8:12 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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?

The situation is known to some core developers, but is hard to change now.

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

Plus tartfiles come from unix world, whereas zip was used instead in 
Windows world.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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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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