On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 02:34:14PM +0100, Masklinn wrote:
> Isn't it a bit weird to include that to shutil though? shutil advertises
> itself as "a number of high-level operations on files and collections of
> files." and from what I understood it was a bunch of shell-type utility
> functions to easily copy, move or remove files and directories (that's pretty
> much all there is in it at this time).
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense to put those "archive utils" functions/objects in
> a new module separate from shutil, dealing specifically with cross-archive
> APIs and linked from the current archive-specific modules (essentially, just
> take the current archive_util, move it to the toplevel of the stdlib and
> maybe rename it)? It would also make the module much easier to find when
> searching through the module listing, I think.
+1
Oleg.
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