Uwe Mayer wrote: > is it possible to delete a file from a tar-archive using the tarfile module? The tarlib.py in pyNMS claims to be able to do it. It doesn't use the tarfile module, though. http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/pynms/pyNMS/lib/tarlib.py?rev=1.1.1.1&view=auto -- Michael Hoffman