On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 01:45 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > On 7/22/2011 12:48 AM, rantingrick wrote: > > On Jul 21, 11:13 pm, Corey Richardson<kb1...@aim.com> wrote: > >> Excerpts from rantingrick's message of Thu Jul 21 23:46:05 -0400 2011: > >> > >>> I may have found the mother of all inconsitency warts when comparing > >>> the zipfile and tarfile modules. Not only are the API's different, but > >>> the entry and exits are differnet AND zipfile/tarfile do not behave > >>> like proper file objects should. > >> > >> I agree, actually. > > Hmm. Archives are more like directories than files. Windows, at least, > seems to partly treat zipfiles as more or less as such. Certainly, 7zip > present a directory interface. So opening a zipfile/tarfile would be > like opening a directory, which we normally do not do. On the other > hand, I am not sure I like python's interface to directories that much.
Indeed. Actually, I'd say that archives are more like *entire filesystems* than either files or directories. We have a pretty nice ZipFS implementation as part of the PyFilesystem project: http://packages.python.org/fs/ If anyone cares enough to whip up a TarFS implementation it would be gratefully merged into trunk. (There may even be the start of one in the bugtracker somewhere, I don't recall...) Cheers, Ryan -- Ryan Kelly http://www.rfk.id.au | This message is digitally signed. Please visit r...@rfk.id.au | http://www.rfk.id.au/ramblings/gpg/ for details
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