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 ''
I'm at my wits end with this error, it doesn't make any sense that it
would treat bzip2'd tar archives very differently than gz'd tar
archives.
Justin
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