Hi, I have a number of relatively large number *tar.gzip files to process. With the py module tarfile, I see that I can access and extract them, one at a time to a temporary dir, but that of course takes time.
All that I need to do is to read the first and last lines of each file and then move on to the next one. I am not changing anything in these files - just reading. The file lines are not fixed lengths either, which makes it a bit more fun. Is there a way to do this, without decompressing each file to a temp dir? Like is there a method using some tarfile interface adapter to read a compressed file? Otherwise I'll just access each file, extract it, grab the 1st and last lines and then delete the temp file. thx 'mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
