Peter Bienstman <peter.bienst...@ugent.be> added the comment: On Friday 15 January 2010 11:51:24 am Lars Gustäbel wrote: > Lars Gustäbel <l...@gustaebel.de> added the comment: > > First, use a string pathname for extractall(). Most likely, your script is > going to work. Convert all pathnames to strings using > sys.getfilesystemencoding() before you add() them. Ensure that all systems > you are going to use the archives on have the same filesystem encoding, > e.g. utf-8.
Unfortunately, that is beyond my control. Am I then totally out of luck? Would the implementation of tarfile in 3.0 be useable on 2.6 (perhaps with small modifications?) > Pax archives are probably the best choice if you plan to keep > the archives for several years. If you simply want to transfer data from > one system to the other throwing the archives away afterwards, the format > is rather irrelevant. The archives are throw-away, transfer only, but they could be used on any system. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7693> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
