On May 16, 11:46 am, Kushal Kumaran <kushal.kuma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdai...@gmail.com> 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. 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. 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. > > Is the file itself correct? Are you able to extract the files using > any compression program? Do you have a version of tar installed that > you can try extracting the file with? If you don't, a Windows version > of tar will be available with cygwin. > > -- > kushal
Yes, I can open and extract it using WinRAR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list