how to tar with python

[Brian McCann]

Hi,
 
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
any help would be greatly appreciated
--Brian
 
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[tmp]$ ./tarup.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./tarup.py", line 29, in ?
    tfile .add(f)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/tarfile.py", line 1229, in add
    tarinfo = self.gettarinfo(name, arcname)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/tarfile.py", line 1101, in gettarinfo
    statres = os.lstat(name)
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'viz2.xml'

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import string
import os
import shutil
import tarfile


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