Robert Dailey wrote:
Hi,
I'm not a big expert on the tarfile component, but I assumed that .tgz
files were short for .tar.gz and the format was the same.
That's correct.
When I try
to extract a .tgz file using tarfile in Python 3.0 on Windows, I get
the following error:
File "C:\Python30\lib\tarfile.py", line 1630, in open
raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully")
tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully
I'm assuming this is because the .tgz format is not what I think it is
and is not supported.
Not true. It's supported.
How can I extract .tgz files using Python 3.0?
Note that I probably can't depend on third party python modules, since
I have yet to find many that support Python 3.0.
Thanks.
It's hard to debug your code when you don't show us your code, so I
won't try.
I can however supply a bit of working code:
>>> import tarfile
>>> f=tarfile.open('f.tgz')
>>> f.list()
-rw-r--r-- gherron/gherron 703 2009-03-14 15:59:46 t.py
-rw-r--r-- gherron/gherron 566 2009-05-15 09:13:08 note-bzr-hg
-rw-r--r-- gherron/gherron 11563 2009-04-24 09:33:12 .emacs
So the module correctly reads the tar-gzip file, and finds its contents.
Now, what is it you were trying to do?
Gary Herron
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