On Jul 22, 12:05 am, Corey Richardson kb1...@aim.com wrote:
from archive import ZipFile, TarFile
zf = ZipFile(path, *args)
tf = TarFile(path, *args)
I have nothing to do this weekend, I might as well either write my own or
twist around the existing implementations in the hg repo.
My
On Jul 22, 12:45 am, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
On 7/22/2011 12:48 AM, rantingrick wrote:
On Jul 21, 11:13 pm, Corey Richardsonkb1...@aim.com wrote:
Hmm. Archives are more like directories than files. Windows, at least,
seems to partly treat zipfiles as more or less as such.
Yes
Excerpts from rantingrick's message of Fri Jul 22 02:40:51 -0400 2011:
On Jul 22, 12:45am, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
On 7/22/2011 12:48 AM, rantingrick wrote:
On Jul 21, 11:13 pm, Corey Richardsonkb1...@aim.com wrote:
Hmm. Archives are more like directories than files. Windows,
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:46:05PM -0700, rantingrick wrote:
I may have found the mother of all inconsitency warts when comparing
the zipfile and tarfile modules. Not only are the API's different, but
the entry and exits are differnet AND zipfile/tarfile do not behave
like proper file objects
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:58:37PM -0700, rantingrick wrote:
My hat is off to you Mr. Richardson. I've even considered creating my
own clean versions of these two modules, because heck, it is not that
difficult to do! However we must stop fixing these warts on a local
level Corey. We MUST
On 22/07/11 05:46, rantingrick wrote:
PS: I will be posting more warts very soon. This stdlib is a gawd
awful mess!
Please don't. Not here.
There's a wonderful bug tracker at python.org. Use that. That's where
this kind of thing belongs. And, please, be concise.
What's the point of shouting
On 07/22/2011 03:26 AM, Lars Gustäbel wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:46:05PM -0700, rantingrick wrote:
Tarfile is missing the attribute fp and instead exposes a
boolean closed. This mismatching API is asinine! Both
tarfile and zipfile should behave EXACTLY like file objects
What do you
On Jul 22, 3:26 am, Lars Gustäbel l...@gustaebel.de wrote:
There is a reason why these two APIs are different. When I wrote tarfile
zipfile had already been existing for maybe 8 years and I didn't like its
interface very much. So, I came up with a different one for tarfile that in my
opinion
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:11 AM, rantingrick rantingr...@gmail.com wrote:
WWrong! It is more that just a MERE preference. Tarfile and zipfile
are BOTH archive modules and as such should present a consistent API.
I really don't care so much about the actual details AS LONG AS THE
APIs ARE
Oh, and:
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:11 AM, rantingrick rantingr...@gmail.com wrote:
Will you be starting with the zipfile API migration?
Will you?
Rick, quit ranting and start coding. If you want things to happen, the
best way is to do them. If you make a post on the dev list WITH A
PATCH, or
On Jul 22, 3:49 am, Lars Gustäbel l...@gustaebel.de wrote:
One could get the impression that you are leading a grass-roots movement
fighting a big faceless corporation. Instead, what you're dealing with is this
warm and friendly Python community you could as well be a part of if you are a
On 7/22/2011 2:40 AM, rantingrick wrote:
On Jul 22, 12:45 am, Terry Reedytjre...@udel.edu wrote:
Let me give some overall comments rather than respond point by point.
Python-dev is a volunteer *human* community, not a faceless corporation,
with an ever-changing composition (a very mutable
On 7/22/2011 4:26 AM, Lars Gustäbel wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:46:05PM -0700, rantingrick wrote:
PS: I will be posting more warts very soon. This stdlib is a gawd
awful mess!
I do not agree. Although I come across one or two odd things myself from time
to time, I think the stdlib as
In article j0cjaf$mum$1...@dough.gmane.org,
Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
This introduced the problem that upgrading to Python 3 is no longer a
single thing. We really need 2to3.1 (the current 2to3), 2to3.2, 2to3.3,
etc, but someone would have to make the new versions, but no one,
On 7/22/2011 5:17 PM, Ned Deily wrote:
In articlej0cjaf$mum$1...@dough.gmane.org,
Terry Reedytjre...@udel.edu wrote:
This introduced the problem that upgrading to Python 3 is no longer a
single thing. We really need 2to3.1 (the current 2to3), 2to3.2, 2to3.3,
etc, but someone would have to
I may have found the mother of all inconsitency warts when comparing
the zipfile and tarfile modules. Not only are the API's different, but
the entry and exits are differnet AND zipfile/tarfile do not behave
like proper file objects should.
import zipfile, tarfile
import os
I may have found the mother of all inconsitency warts when comparing
the zipfile and tarfile modules. Not only are the API's different, but
the entry and exits are differnet AND zipfile/tarfile do not behave
like proper file objects should.
import zipfile, tarfile
import os
I may have found the mother of all inconsitency warts when comparing
the zipfile and tarfile modules. Not only are the API's different, but
the entry and exits are differnet AND zipfile/tarfile do not behave
like proper file objects should.
import zipfile, tarfile
import os
Excerpts from rantingrick's message of Thu Jul 21 23:46:05 -0400 2011:
I may have found the mother of all inconsitency warts when comparing
the zipfile and tarfile modules. Not only are the API's different, but
the entry and exits are differnet AND zipfile/tarfile do not behave
like proper
On Jul 21, 11:13 pm, Corey Richardson kb1...@aim.com wrote:
Excerpts from rantingrick's message of Thu Jul 21 23:46:05 -0400 2011:
I may have found the mother of all inconsitency warts when comparing
the zipfile and tarfile modules. Not only are the API's different, but
the entry and exits
Excerpts from rantingrick's message of Fri Jul 22 00:48:37 -0400 2011:
On Jul 21, 11:13pm, Corey Richardson kb1...@aim.com wrote:
I agree, actually.
Maybe i can offer a solution. A NEW module called archive.py (could
even be a package!) which exports both the zip and tar file classes.
On 7/22/2011 12:48 AM, rantingrick wrote:
On Jul 21, 11:13 pm, Corey Richardsonkb1...@aim.com wrote:
Excerpts from rantingrick's message of Thu Jul 21 23:46:05 -0400 2011:
I may have found the mother of all inconsitency warts when comparing
the zipfile and tarfile modules. Not only are the
On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 01:45 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 7/22/2011 12:48 AM, rantingrick wrote:
On Jul 21, 11:13 pm, Corey Richardsonkb1...@aim.com wrote:
Excerpts from rantingrick's message of Thu Jul 21 23:46:05 -0400 2011:
I may have found the mother of all inconsitency warts when
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