can tarfile maintain directory structure?

[David M. Cooke]

At some point, jaydonnell at yahoo.com (Jay Donnell) wrote:

>> import tarfile
>> 
>> tar = tarfile.open(filename, "w:gz")
>> tar.add(directory)
>> tar.close()
>> 
>> The add() method is recursive by default. More information and examples
>> here: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-tarfile.html
>
> That doesn't maintain the directory structure. When you untar it all
> the files are in the base directory (when I untar it on windows with
> winzip).

Winzip is probably broken? It works for me using GNU tar on Linux.

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