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| From | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: tarfile vs zipfile |
| Date | 2015-03-02 21:29 -0500 |
| References | <97542b34-5381-48c2-93bb-755d4ac49369@googlegroups.com> <85h9u228ag.fsf@benfinney.id.au> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.76.1425349761.13471.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
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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