tar interface

[David Bear]

I just googled for a 'python tar interface module' and got over 33000
hits. ug.

I'm looking for a python module that either interfaces to gnutar in a
pythonic way or reads/writes tar files directly. I know there's
always os.popoen etc, but was hoping for something a little more ..

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[Gary Herron]

I just googled for a 'python tar interface module' and got over 33000
hits. ug.

I'm looking for a python module that either interfaces to gnutar in a
pythonic way or reads/writes tar files directly. I know there's
always os.popoen etc, but was hoping for something a little more ..

Python 2.3 has a module named tarfile that provides tar functionality
as well as some of the gnu extensions to tar. It does not interface
with any external implementation of tar, put provides its own.

Here is an excerpt from its documentation:


tarfile -- Read and write tar archive files

New in version 2.3.

The tarfile module makes it possible to read and create tar
archives. Some facts and figures:

* reads and writes gzip and bzip2 compressed archives.

* creates POSIX 1003.1-1990 compliant or GNU tar compatible archives.

* reads GNU tar extensions longname, longlink and sparse.

* stores pathnames of unlimited length using GNU tar extensions.

* handles directories, regular files, hardlinks, symbolic links,
fifos, character devices and block devices and is able to acquire
and restore file information like timestamp, access permissions and
owner.

* can handle tape devices.


Hope that works for you,

Gary Herron

 

[Fredrik Lundh]

I just googled for a 'python tar interface module' and got over 33000
hits. ug.

you're supposed to use import, not google:

$ python
Python 2.3.2Help on module tarfile:

NAME
tarfile - Read from and write to tar format archives.

FILE
c:\python23\lib\tarfile.py

CLASSES
exceptions.Exception
TarError
CompressionError
ExtractError
ReadError
StreamError
TarFileCompat
TarIter
__builtin__.object
ExFileObject
TarFile
TarInfo

if you have an earlier Python version, see this page:

http://www.gustaebel.de/lars/tarfile/

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[James Kew]

I just googled for a 'python tar interface module' and got over 33000
hits. ug.

I'm looking for a python module that either interfaces to gnutar in a
pythonic way or reads/writes tar files directly. I know there's
always os.popoen etc, but was hoping for something a little more ..

Part of the standard library, if you use (or can move to) Python 2.3:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-tarfile.html

 

[Peter Hansen]

Part of the standard library, if you use (or can move to) Python 2.3:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-tarfile.html

Also downloadable from somewhere in a version that works just fine
with Python 2.2, and possibly earlier ones.