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> Hi folks, I've got a question for yas. I'm trying to write code that > will open up a gzipped tar file using gnutar, and copy the list of > files(including their directories) to a list variable in python. From > there, I want to go through the list and delete those files from my > system. That part is easy, but what I'm stuck on is getting the list > of files in an archive into a list variable. If I use the -t parameter > in gnutar, it prints a list of the files in a seperate cmd screen, but > only returns 0. Is there any way to make it return a list, or to copy > the information over? Thanks in advance! > Perhaps this will help: http://docs.python.org/lib/tar-examples.html Rob. -- http://www.victim-prime.dsl.pipex.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
