I need to store a large number of files in an archive. From Python, I need to be able to create an archive, put files into it, modify files that are already in it, and delete files already in it.
The easy solution would be to use a zip file or a tar file. Python has good standard modules for accessing those types. However, I would tend to think that modifying or deleting files in the archive would require rewriting the entire archive. Is there any archive format that can allow Python to modify a file in the archive *in place*? That is to say if my archive is 2GB large and I have a small text file in the archive I want to be able to modify that small text file (or delete it) without having to rewrite the entire archive to disk. Does anything like this exist? If nothing exists for Python, is there something written in C maybe that I could wrap (preferably you won't suggest wrapping the ext2 filesystem driver.. ;) ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
