Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> > > support for browsing tar files.
> >
> > Does python have some modules to browse tar files? Else I'd suggest
> > something for which you already have python support, so as to focus on
> > Hurdish matter.
>
> I don't know, whether Python has support for tar files :-) I meant writing
> a translator in C, because I am not aiming at writing Python bindings. I
> chose tar because I found sufficient (it seems to me) documentation on
> libtar and, what is more important, the translator I want to write will
> have to implement the whole fundamental functionality of a translator
> (sorry for the pun :-) ).
Even so, Python does have tar support:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-tarfile.html
Thought it might interest you anyhow :)
Thanks a lot! I didn't know Python can to _that_ much :-)