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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) |
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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() |
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| 86 | How to create a tar archive with faked information: |
| 87 | <div class="verbatim"><pre> |
| 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)) |
| 97 | tar.close() |
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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 |
| 106 | tar = tarfile.open(mode="r|", fileobj=sys.stdin) |
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| 108 | tar.extract(tarinfo) |
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