Hi! I just had a look at issue 3039 that reports a bug in tarfile.py's TarFileCompat class and I came to the conclusion that I really would like to remove the TarFileCompat class from Python 3.0.
Some details: The ZipFile and TarFile classes both have very different interfaces. The original intention behind TarFileCompat was to have a second TarFile class with a ZipFile-like interface, so that both could be used in the same context. In retrospect, the addition of TarFileCompat has never been a good idea. There are few use cases and I think only a few people actually know that it exists. The class is small and has little functionality which can be accomplished easily without it. It has to be synchronized with ZipFile whenever that changes. It has no unittests, so that the TarFile.writestr() method has been broken for over two years without anyone noticing. Recently, TarFile's extract() and extractall() methods were added to ZipFile's interface. I know that this is a minor issue, but I don't want to remove TarFileCompat without having asked for opinions before (if there are any). Thanks. -- Lars Gustäbel [EMAIL PROTECTED] War does not determine who is right - only who is left. (Bertrand Russell) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
