On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Esmail<ebo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Benjamin Kaplan wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Esmail<ebo...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I >>> tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to >>> specify the highest (9) compression level for gzip. >>> >>> Ideally: >>> >>> t = tarfile.open(tar_file_name+'.tar.gz', mode='w:gz:9') > > <..> >> >> Looking at the tarfile docs, it seems that there are tarfile.gzopen >> and tarfile.bz2open functions that have a compresslevel parameter that >> defaults to 9. You can't append using those functions but you can read >> and write. > > Hi Benjamin, > > I can't find tarfile.gzopen in the tarfile docs, I'm looking here: > > http://docs.python.org/library/tarfile.html > > Am I looking at the wrong page? >
My mistake. It isn't a function of the tarfile module, it's a class method of tarfile.TarFile. I was looking at the help in the interactive interpreter. It doesn't seem to be in the official docs, but you can use pydoc to view the docstrings. > Thanks, > > Esmail > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
