Reading tar/gz-files

[Bernhard Herzog]

Thomas Weholt <thomas at bibsyst.no> writes:
[...]
> work down to a minimum. Ok, so I`m lazy. The reading tar.h-stuff: eh ...
> I`ll skip that. TarIO implements some of the functionality you say, just
> how much is my question. All I want is to get a list of the files in a
> tar.gz/tgz-archive.

I haven't actually used it, I merely remembered having seen in the PIL
sources. AFAICT, it's used to extract files from a tar file, and one
thing it has to do is search the file in the tar-archive. ISTM that it
would be easy to modify the code to produce a list of filenames.

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