How to create an uncompressed tar archive from a list of filenames:
import tarfile tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar", "w") for name in ["foo", "bar", "quux"]: tar.add(name) tar.close()
How to read a gzip compressed tar archive and display some member information:
import tarfile tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "r:gz") for tarinfo in tar: print tarinfo.name, "is", tarinfo.size, "bytes in size and is", if tarinfo.isreg(): print "a regular file." elif tarinfo.isdir(): print "a directory." else: print "something else." tar.close()
How to create a tar archive with faked information:
import tarfile tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "w:gz") for name in namelist: tarinfo = tar.gettarinfo(name, "fakeproj-1.0/" + name) tarinfo.uid = 123 tarinfo.gid = 456 tarinfo.uname = "johndoe" tarinfo.gname = "fake" tar.addfile(tarinfo, file(name)) tar.close()
The only way to extract an uncompressed tar stream from
sys.stdin
:
import sys import tarfile tar = tarfile.open(mode="r|", fileobj=sys.stdin) for tarinfo in tar: tar.extract(tarinfo) tar.close()