[Python-Dev] What to do with our Zip code?

[Guido van Rossum]

[Jeremy, on our Zip code]
> I'm all for improving the code and getting it out.  The real problem
> is that interfaces have been glommed on for every new use of a Zip
> file.  (You want to read one off a socket and extract files before
> you've got the whole thing?  No problem! Add a new class.)  We need to
> figure out the common patterns for using the archives and write a new
> set of interfaces to support that.

If we gave you the code we currently have, would someone else in this
forum be willing to redesign it?  Eventually it would become part of
the Python distribution.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)