Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: > * "read" will raise an exception when trying to read a symlink > (alternative: do symlink resolving, but that's too magical to my taste)
And perhaps when trying to read a directory entry too. > * "extract" and "extractall" extract the symlink as a symlink > (but I'm not sure yet what to do on systems that don't support symlinks) What the tar module do? > * with the various file types it might be better to also provide > "islink(name)", "isdir(name)" and "isfile(name)" methods (simular to > their os.path equivalents) Or rather as methods of the ZipInfo object. See TarInfo. ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18595> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
