RAR functionality

Benjamin Schollnick benjamin at schollnick.net
Fri Nov 30 16:42:06 EST 2018


Folks,

Can anyone explain to me why RAR support isn’t available natively in python?

We have the zipfile and tarfile modules… 

Yes, there is rarfile and PaTools but they both rely on RAR being available to shell out to…  
What is it about RAR files that makes it unreasonable to handle in natively in python?
Licensing?  Bad rar file design?

		- Benjamin





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