tarfile vs zipfile

[Ben Finney]

Seth P <seth-p at outlook.com> writes:

> Is there a reason tarfile and zipfile don't use the same method/member
> names, where it makes sense?

One likely explanation is that the modules's APIs were designed by
different people unaware of the work of the other.

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Ben Finney