Irit Katriel added the comment:
I agree with William that it is better to do this in a helper function than to
further complicate make_archive.
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nosy: +iritkatriel
resolution: -> rejected
stage: -> resolved
status: open -> closed
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William Tisäter added the comment:
I'm not sure if this is a suitable feature in `make_archive()`, it would only
introduce a more expensive and ugly lookup. Using this method with a
pre-defined filename including extension must be rare. If you really want this
behaviour, I would prefer having
New submission from Andreas Hilboll:
shutil.make_archive should be able to automatically determine the desired
*format* from the given filename. It would make life easier, because the
programmer wouldn't need to strip the extension from the filename before
passing it to make_archive. I'm think
