[PyWart 1001] Inconsistencies between zipfile and tarfile APIs

[Terry Reedy]

The above should be taken as reporting, accurate or not, rather than
advocacy.

I don't quite understand this. Since 2to3 is included with Python 3,
there are, in fact, separate releases of 2to3 for each release of Python
3 so far.

To the best of my knowledge, 2to3 is not being adjusted on a per-release
basis. I am for doing this, but as I remember, there was some opposition
when the question was discussed on py-dev. If I am wrong, I would be
glad to be corrected.

And, unlike with Python 2 with a large installed base across
a number of versions, Python 3 version support can be and is much more
focused now in its early releases. Support for 3.0 was terminated
immediately upon release of 3.1. And 3.1 is now in security-fix mode
only. So, except for a brief overlap after the initial release of 3.2,
there has only been one Python 3 release that needs to be targeted. Of
course, that will change over time as adoption continues and mainstream
OS's include specific Python 3 releases. But, for now, it's easy: just
target the most recent Python 3 release, currently 3.2.1. Don't worry
about earlier releases.

That would be my attitude too. I would hope that most of the major
library are available for 3.2 before 3.3 is out. There there would only
be the normal minor adjustments for code that happens to hit the new
deprecations.