John Machin wrote:
Yes. Moreover, "WinZip", the most popular archive-handler, doesn't grok bzip2.
I've added a zip file. It was made in Linux with the zip command-line tool, the man pages say it's compatible with the Windows zip tools. I have also added .py extentions to the 2 programs. I did however not use distutils, because I'm not sure it is really adapted to module-less scripts.
You should consider a fall-back method to be used in this case and in the case of too many files for your 1Mb (default) buffer pool. BTW 1Mb seems tiny; desktop PCs come with 512MB standard these days, and Bill does leave a bit more than 1MB available for applications.
I've added it to the TODO list.
The question was rhetorical. Your irony detector must be on the fritz. :-)
I always find it hard to detect irony by mail with people I do not know. ..
Did you actually run it on your Windows box?
Yes, with trepidation, after carefully reading the source. It detected some highly plausible duplicates, which I haven't verified yet.
I would have been reluctant too. But I've tested it intensively, and there's strictly no statement that actually alters the file system.
Thanks for your feedback!
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