On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:51, Tarek Ziadé <ziade.ta...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> For 2.7/3.2, I am in the process of removing modules in Distutils that >> can be replaced by calls to existing functions in stdlib. For >> instance, "dir_util" and "file_util" (old modules from the Python 1.x >> era) are going away in favor of calls to shutil (and os), so the >> Distutils package gets lighter. >> >> Another module I would like to move away from Distutils is >> "archive_util". It contains helpers to build archives, whether they >> are zip or tar files. I propose to move those useful functions into >> shutil, as this seems the most logical place. > > If it's archive-agnostic then shutil is probably the best place.
In more details: It allows the creation of gzip, bzip2, tar and zip files through a single API. There's a registry of supported formats and the API is driven by a format identifier. To do the work it uses stdlib's compression modules. Although it tries the "zip" system command as a fallback if the "zipfile" module is not present. (notice that I've removed the support of "compress" (.Z) some time ago) Regards Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
