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		kmill on Nov 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A very subtle bug (2010) If you're wondering about downvotes, it's probably because this is mentioned briefly. > It probably should be using tarfile, but let’s ignore that for the moment.

carlmr on Nov 22, 2023 [–]

Apart from that it's mentioned. I have often seen tarfile being replaced by tar as subprocess, because tarfile is just so slow that it can make or break your use-case.

I'm not sure if tarfile got better since I've last used it.

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