Lars Gustäbel <l...@gustaebel.de> added the comment: If I am not mistaken the functionality you look for is the streaming mode of tarfile.open():
tar = tarfile.open(fileobj=sys.stdin, mode="r|*") Does this solve your problem? ---------- assignee: -> lars.gustaebel nosy: +lars.gustaebel _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6254> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
