1.0.0

🎉 pycabfile v1.0.0 - Initial Release

We're excited to announce the first stable release of pycabfile, a Python library for handling Microsoft Cabinet files with a zipfile-compatible interface!

✨ Key Features

• 🔄 zipfile-compatible API - Drop-in replacement for Python's zipfile module when working with CAB files
• 📦 Create and extract CAB files - Full support for reading and writing Microsoft Cabinet files
• 🐍 Pure Python implementation - No external dependencies required
• 🚀 Python 3.10+ support - Compatible with modern Python versions
• 📁 Unicode filename support - Handle international filenames correctly
• 🔧 Context manager support - Use with with statements for automatic resource management

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

pip install pycabfile

Basic Usage

from pycabfile import CabFile

# Create a CAB file
with CabFile('example.cab', 'w') as cab:
    cab.write('document.txt')
    cab.writestr('readme.txt', 'Hello World!')

# Read a CAB file
with CabFile('example.cab', 'r') as cab:
    files = cab.namelist()
    content = cab.read('readme.txt')
    cab.extractall('output/')

📋 What's Included

• Core Library (pycabfile/) - Main implementation with zipfile-compatible interface
• Comprehensive Tests - Full test suite ensuring reliability
• Documentation - Complete README with examples and API reference
• Example Code - Practical usage examples

🔧 API Compatibility

This library provides the same interface as Python's zipfile.ZipFile:

zipfile	pycabfile
ZipFile('file.zip', 'w')	CabFile('file.cab', 'w')
zf.write('file.txt')	cf.write('file.txt')
zf.read('name')	cf.read('name')
zf.extractall()	cf.extractall()

🎯 Use Cases

Perfect for:

• Working with legacy CAB archives
• Cross-platform CAB file handling
• Integration with existing zipfile-based code
• Automated CAB file processing

📊 Technical Specifications

• Python Version: 3.10+
• Dependencies: None (pure Python)
• CAB Format: Microsoft Cabinet File Format compatible
• File Size: Supports standard CAB file limitations
• Compression: CAB_STORED and CAB_COMPRESSED modes

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our repository for:

• Bug reports and feature requests
• Code contributions
• Documentation improvements
• Test cases

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

Thanks to the Python community for the inspiration from the zipfile module design.

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Download: Available on PyPI: pip install pycabfile