On Wed, 2011-02-16, peter wrote: > I am writing a small Tkinter utility to control archive files in > multiple formats (mainly for my own amusement and education). > Basically it presents the user with two adjacent listboxes, one with > the contents of the target directory and one with the contents of the > archive. By clicking buttons labelled '<' and '>' the user can copy > files to and from the archive. The actual archiving functionality > derives from the modules zipfile and tarfile. > > It all seems to be working fine, but I have two residual queries. > Firstly for the sake of completeness I would like to include .rar > archives, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent rarfile module. > I use both Windows and Linux on various machines, so need a cross > platform solution which does not depend on external modules. The only > one I have found is at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rarfile/1.0, but it > seems this does rely on an external module. Is there anything out > there?
RAR is a proprietary format, which complicates things. For example, Linux distributions like Debian cannot distribute software which handles it. If Python included such a module, they'd be forced to remove it from their version. I wouldn't encourage its use by writing /more/ software which handles it. IMHO, archives should be widely readable forever, and to be that they need to be in a widely used, open format. /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
