On 1/17/2010 12:09 PM, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
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:
>> 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.
Will it also allow decompression of the said archive types? Distribute
has some utility code to handle zip/tar archives. So does PyPM. This is
because the `tarfile` and `zipfile` modules do not "just work" due to
several issues.
See http://gist.github.com/279606
Take note of the following in the above code:
1) _ensure_read_write_access
2) *File.is_valid
3) ZippedFile.extract ... issue 6510
4) ZippedFile.extract ... issue 6609
5) TarredFile.extract ... issue 6584
6) The way unpack() detects the unpacked directory.
-srid
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