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()
