Top "Tarfile" questions

How to create full compressed tar file using Python?

How can I create a .tar.gz file with compression in Python?

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Size of an open file object

Is there a way to find the size of a file object that is currently open? Specifically, I am working …

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How to construct a TarFile object in memory from byte buffer in Python 3?

Is it possible to create a TarFile object in memory using a buffer containing the tar data without having to …

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Safely extract zip or tar using Python

I'm trying to extract user-submitted zip and tar files to a directory. The documentation for zipfile's extractall method (similarly with …

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How to unpack xz file with python which contains only data but no filename?

I have a file, which I can decompress under linux using the following command: unxz < file.xz > file.…

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How to determine if data is valid tar file without a file?

My upload form expects a tar file and I want to check whether the uploaded data is valid. The tarfile …

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In python, if extract a tar.gz file, how to get or set the name of the result file

My question is like: when use: import tarfile tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz") tar.extractall() tar.close() if the …

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Checking tarfile integrity in Python

I'm working on converting my backup script from shell to Python. One of the features of my old script was …

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Tarfile in Python: Can I untar more efficiently by extracting only some of the data?

I am ordering a huge pile landsat scenes from the USGS, which come as tar.gz archives. I am writing …

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