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How to create an uncompressed tar archive from a list of filenames:
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tar = tarfile.open(
"sample.tar",
"w")
for name in [
"foo",
"bar",
"quux"]:
How to read a gzip compressed tar archive and display some member information:
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tar = tarfile.open(
"sample.tar.gz",
"r:gz")
print tarinfo.name,
"is", tarinfo.size,
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How to create a tar archive with faked information:
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tar = tarfile.open(
"sample.tar.gz",
"w:gz")
tarinfo = tar.gettarinfo(name,
"fakeproj-1.0/" + name)
tarinfo.uname =
"johndoe"
tar.addfile(tarinfo, file(name))
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