[Python-ideas] Adding ziplib

[Florian Bruhin]

* Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> [2015-02-16 19:00:33 -0600]:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I love the idea (I've had to write my own custom wrapper around a subset
> > of functionality for zip and tgz a few times, and I don't remember enjoying
> > it...), and I especially like the idea of starting with the ABCs (which
> > would hopefully encourage all those people writing cpio and 7z and whatever
> > parsers to conform to the same API, even if they do so by wrapping LGPL
> > libs like libarchive or even subprocessing out to command-line tools).
> >
> > But why "ziplib"? Why not something generic like "archive" that doesn't
> > sound like it's specific to ZIP files?
> >
> >
> This occurred to me a few moments ago. How about arclib?

To me, that sounds like a library to handle ARC files:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(file_format)

Florian

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