RAR functionality

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 8:43 AM Benjamin Schollnick
<benjamin at schollnick.net> wrote:
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> Folks,
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> Can anyone explain to me why RAR support isn’t available natively in python?
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> We have the zipfile and tarfile modules…
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> 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?
>

Licensing, yes.

ChrisA