Tar-like module?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:24:07PM -0500, Scott Fenton wrote:
>This may be an idiotic question, but is there a module
>to read tar files in python? I googled around and 
>couldn't find anything, and the Python Std Library docs
>didn't have anything. Any help would be nice.

Actually, I think there are a few of them.  I can't remember what packages
they're a part of though...  Distutils, maybe?

Anyway, pyntar at ftp.tummy.com:/pub/tummy/pyntar/ has the ability to read
tar data including processing the headers.  It's not really a complete
setup though.

Sean
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