I'm happy to announce the very first release of arclib! https://github.com/kirbyfan64/arclib
To quote the README: arclib aims at providing a unified API for accessing Python's archive formats. In particular, it provides the following APIs: - Basic, one-shot: For gzip, bzip2, and LZMA. Supports one-shot compression and decompression. - Basic, incremental: For bzip2 and LZMA. Supports incremental compression and decompression. - Complex: For zip and tar. Supports accessing the various members and their respective information. Links: PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/arclib Docs: http://arclib.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ -- Ryan [ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your program. Something’s wrong. http://kirbyfan64.github.io/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/