On 02/11/2016 09:31 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: > 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
# First you construct a file object with makefile. fo = socket.makefile() # Then you use the fileobj argument with tarfile.open. tarfile.open(mode='r', fileobj = fo) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
