How can I create a .tar.gz file with compression in Python?
To build a .tar.gz
(aka .tgz
) for an entire directory tree:
import tarfile
import os.path
def make_tarfile(output_filename, source_dir):
with tarfile.open(output_filename, "w:gz") as tar:
tar.add(source_dir, arcname=os.path.basename(source_dir))
This will create a gzipped tar archive containing a single top-level folder with the same name and contents as source_dir
.