On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: [..] >> Are these functions portable? Do they rely on external programs? >> >> > > I believe that part of the work that Tarek has been doing has been to make > these distutils commands use the Python standard library and not depend on > external programs. In which case they seem like *excellent* additions to the > shutil module.
yes, in the past the "tar" files where created using the "tar" command but this has been changed. For a while now, they are portable and they use stdlib code only. A recent addition is to be able to define user/group permissions in the tar files, thanks to Lars' work in the tarfile module. There's one remaining external call for "zip" done if the zip module is not found, but I am happy to remove it and throw an exception if it's not found, and keep the external "zip" call on Distutils side, so shutil stays 100% stdlib-powered. > Of course Tarek can speak for himself... Thanks for explaining it ! :) 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
