tarfile : read from a socket?

[Antoon Pardon]

On 02/11/2016 06:27 PM, Lars Gustäbel wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 04:41:43PM +0000, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
>>   sfo = sock.makefile('r')
>>   taro = tarfile.open(fileobj=sfo,mode='r|')
>>   taro.extractall(path=edir)
> What about using an iterator?
>
> def myiter(tar):
>     for t in tar:
>         print "extracting", t.name
>         yield t
>
> sfo = sock.makefile('r')
> taro = tarfile.open(fileobj=sfo,mode='r|')
> taro.extractall(members=myiter(taro),path=edir)
>
> Cheers,

The tarfile is already an iterator. Just do the following: for ti in
taro:     print "extracting", ti.name taro.extract(ti)