Module for reading tarfiles?

[Jeff Bauer]

"A.M. Kuchling" wrote:
> Does anyone have any code for reading tar archives in Python?  A long
> time ago, Clemens Hintze wrote a tarlib.py that was on python.org, but
> it no longer seems to be there.  Anyone have a copy lying around?  If
> no code can be found, I'll start working on a module to handle
> tarfiles.

Andrew,

I ripped out Jim Fulton's code out of Zope to handle both
normal and compressed tar files.  You've had experience
doing this with ZODB. ;-)

Perhaps some version of the code could make it into the
standard distribution.

gems-hidden-amongst-dross-ly y'rs,

Jeff Bauer
Rubicon Research