how to tar with python

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:03:30 -0300, Brian McCann  
<Brian.McCann at viziant.net> escribi�:

> I'm trying to tar the contents of a directory "test" which contains
> 3 files     foo1.xml ,foo2.xml, foo3.xml
> in my current directory /home/pythonbox/tmp I have the directory "test"
> if I run the below script it fails with the below error, but the files  
> exist in the directory test

Add a print statement and see what you get:

> tfile = tarfile.open("files.tar.gz", 'w:gz')
> files = os.listdir("test")
> for f in files:
	print f
>         tfile.add(f)
> tfile.close

See <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html#l2h-2176>

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Gabriel Genellina