Reading tar/gz-files

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

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

Clement Hintze wrote a tarlib.py module for reading tar files; it's at
ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/contrib-09-Dec-1999/System/tarlib.py .

(Let us have a moment of silence for the FTP section on www.python.org.
 So long and thanks for all the fish^H^H^H^Hfiles...)

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