Someone should think about rewriting the zipfile module to be less
hideous, include a repair feature, and be up to date with the latest
specifications http://www.pkware.com/company/standards/appnote/.
-- and allow *deleting* a file from a zipfile. As far as I can tell,
you now can't (except by
Someone should think about rewriting the zipfile module to be less
hideous, include a repair feature, and be up to date with the latest
specifications http://www.pkware.com/company/standards/appnote/.
-- and allow *deleting* a file from a zipfile. As far as I can tell,
you now can't
On Apr 26, 2005, at 8:24 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Someone should think about rewriting the zipfile module to be less
hideous, include a repair feature, and be up to date with the latest
specifications http://www.pkware.com/company/standards/appnote/.
-- and allow *deleting* a file from a
Bob Ippolito wrote:
One of the most useful things that could happen to the zipfile module
would be a stream interface for both reading and writing. Right now
it's slow and memory hungry when dealing with large chunks. The use
case that lead me to fix this bug is a tool that archives video
Bob Ippolito wrote:
The zipfile module is good enough to create input files for zipimport..
which is well tested and generally works -- barring the fact that
zipimport has quite a few rough edges of its own. I certainly wouldn't
recommend it for any heavy duty tasks in its current state.
Please don't propose a grand rewrite (even it's only a single module).
Given that the API is mostly sensible, please propose gradual
refactoring of the implementation, perhaps some new API methods, and
so on. Don't throw away the work that went into making it work in the
first place!
