Does anyone know a "working" Python library that can read .ARC files?

Question

An ARC file is a lossless data-compression format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC%5F%28file%5Fformat%29

I've tried googling some, but the Python ARC readers are 404 errors, or cannot be found.

Anyone know of any library I can use?

Answer 1

If you are able to use SWIG then possibly the ARC source code from FreeBSD could be used. Or you could have a look at the source, and perhaps reimplement it in Python. I remember ARC and it did not last very long as a popular tool so I suspect that it is not overly complex.