Reading tar/gz-files

[Bernhard Herzog]

Martin von Loewis <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

> Alternatively, you could try to live without an external tar command,
> and implement that yourself. The gzip module is already there and
> provides you with an uncompressed stream. All you'd need to do is to
> interpret the format of tar yourself. See /usr/include/tar.h for a
> starting point.

Note also, that the Python Imaging Library comes with a TarIO module
that implements at least some of the functionality.


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