Sounds good to me. Less cruft is the tagline for Py3k! On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Lars Gustäbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/guido%40python.org >
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