I've been using tarfile like this import tarfile tar = tarfile.open('path_to_tar_archive', 'r:gz')
But I need to use it like this: archive = open('path_to_tar_archive', 'r') tar = tarfile.open(archive.readlines()) or something similar. In essence I need to use tarfile to manipulate an already open file object. I searched in the docs but didn't find anything. Maybe I just over looked the obvious. Does any one know how to do this? Thanks -matthew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list