Python tools to manipulate JARs ?

[Laszlo Nagy]

Andy Dingley írta:
> I run build processes for a Java shop using Python (and some Ant).
>
> Would anyone care to suggest favoured tools for manipulating the
> innards of JARs? Or do I just treat them as plain zipfiles and get
> stuck right in there?
>
> Mainly I'm trying to query lists of classes and their embedded
> versions and do some library dependency reporting. Performance speed
> is starting to be an issue, as there's 1500+ classes in this bucket
> and it's an interactive query.
>   
I believe that you can rename any jar file to .zip and use zip tools to 
list its contents.

   Laszlo