Re: RAR functionality

2018-11-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 8:43 AM Benjamin Schollnick wrote: > > Folks, > > Can anyone explain to me why RAR support isn’t available natively in python? > > We have the zipfile and tarfile modules… > > Yes, there is rarfile and PaTools but they both rely on RAR being available > to shell out to… > W

Re: RAR functionality

2018-11-30 Thread Wildman via Python-list
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:42:06 -0500, Benjamin Schollnick wrote: > Folks, > > Can anyone explain to me why RAR support isn’t available natively in python? > > We have the zipfile and tarfile modules… > > Yes, there is rarfile and PaTools but they both rely on RAR being available > to shell out

RAR functionality

2018-11-30 Thread Benjamin Schollnick
Folks, Can anyone explain to me why RAR support isn’t available natively in python? We have the zipfile and tarfile modules… Yes, there is rarfile and PaTools but they both rely on RAR being available to shell out to… What is it about RAR files that makes it unreasonable to handle in nativel