Re: using python with tar files and compressed files

2006-08-10 Thread John Salerno
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This syntax works on other bzipped tar files. But it's not unheard of > that large tarballs will get corrupted from a download mirror. Use a > download manager and try redownloading the file. Usually a mirror will > include an md5sum text file so that you can compare the

Re: using python with tar files and compressed files

2006-08-09 Thread John Machin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This syntax works on other bzipped tar files. But it's not unheard of > that large tarballs will get corrupted from a download mirror. Use a > download manager and try redownloading the file. Usually a mirror will > include an md5sum text file so that you can compare the

Re: using python with tar files and compressed files

2006-08-09 Thread enigmadude
This syntax works on other bzipped tar files. But it's not unheard of that large tarballs will get corrupted from a download mirror. Use a download manager and try redownloading the file. Usually a mirror will include an md5sum text file so that you can compare the checksum to your downloaded file

using python with tar files and compressed files

2006-08-09 Thread John Salerno
Here's the name of a file I have: wxPython-newdocs-2.6.3.3.tar.bz2 Now, I tried this: import tarfile tar = tarfile.open('wxPython-newdocs-2.6.3.3.tar.bz2', 'r:bz2') but got this: Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in -toplevel- tar = tarfile.open('wxPython-newdocs-2.6.3