mrstephengross: >I want to find a way to embed a tar file *in* my python script, and >then use the tarfile module to extract it. That is, instead of >distributing two files (extractor.py and archive.tar) I want to be able >to distribute *one* file (extractor-with-embedded-archive.py). Is there >a way to do this?
I guess you can uuencode your tar file, and put the result in a multiline string. See module 'uu'. -- René Pijlman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list