https://docs.python.org/2/library/tarfile.html says:
tarfile.open(name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, bufsize=10240, **kwargs) Return a TarFile object for the pathname name. (How) can I read a tar file from a (tcp) socket? I do not have a pathname but a socket object from socket.create_connection() -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-68565868 Allmandring 30a Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list