On 26 Aug 2005 09:05:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I need some tar functionality for my program. Currently the following
> code properly displays tar archives, and tar.gz archives. However, it
> chokes on tar.bz2 archives with the following error:
>
> File "mail_filter.py", line 262, in extract_archive
> tar_archive = tarfile.open('', 'r', fileobj)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/tarfile.py", line 900, in open
> return func(name, "r", fileobj)
> File "/usr/lib/python2.3/tarfile.py", line 980, in bz2open
> raise ValueError, "no support for external file objects"
> ValueError: no support for external file objects
>
>
> The code snippet is:
>
> fileobj = StringIO(attach)
>
> if attach_type == 'application/x-tgz' or attach_type ==
> 'application/x-tbz' or attach_type == 'application/x-tar':
> print '%s file detected, attempting to decompress' %
> (attach_type)
>
> tar_archive = tarfile.open('', 'r', fileobj)
>
> print tar_archive.getnames()
> for archive_file in tar_archive.getmembers():
> print archive_file
> print tar_archive.extractfile(archive_file).read()
> #except:
> # print 'Error while extracting %s.' % (attach_type)
> # return ''
>
Try opening with the 'r:bz2' mode instead of just 'r'.
Cheers,
Richard
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