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60 | How to create an uncompressed tar archive from a list of filenames: | |
61 | <div class="verbatim"><pre> | |
62 | import tarfile | |
63 | tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar", "w") | |
64 | for name in ["foo", "bar", "quux"]: | |
65 | tar.add(name) | |
66 | tar.close() | |
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70 | How to read a gzip compressed tar archive and display some member information: | |
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72 | import tarfile | |
73 | tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "r:gz") | |
74 | for tarinfo in tar: | |
75 | print tarinfo.name, "is", tarinfo.size, "bytes in size and is", | |
76 | if tarinfo.isreg(): | |
77 | print "a regular file." | |
78 | elif tarinfo.isdir(): | |
79 | print "a directory." | |
80 | else: | |
81 | print "something else." | |
82 | tar.close() | |
83 | </pre></div> | |
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86 | How to create a tar archive with faked information: | |
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88 | import tarfile | |
89 | tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "w:gz") | |
90 | for name in namelist: | |
91 | tarinfo = tar.gettarinfo(name, "fakeproj-1.0/" + name) | |
92 | tarinfo.uid = 123 | |
93 | tarinfo.gid = 456 | |
94 | tarinfo.uname = "johndoe" | |
95 | tarinfo.gname = "fake" | |
96 | tar.addfile(tarinfo, file(name)) | |
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101 | The <em>only</em> way to extract an uncompressed tar stream from | |
102 | <code>sys.stdin</code>: | |
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104 | import sys | |
105 | import tarfile | |
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