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Re: tarfile vs zipfile

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Date Tue, 03 Mar 2015 07:26:04 +0000
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On 03/03/2015 02:29, Terry Reedy wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Is the tart bit the thing that you can eat, a loose woman or something 
else, such as a typo? :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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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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