tarfile vs zipfile

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/2/2015 8:12 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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?

The situation is known to some core developers, but is hard to change now.

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

Plus tartfiles come from unix world, whereas zip was used instead in 
Windows world.


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Terry Jan Reedy