[Tutor] using tarfile on strings or filelike objects

[Luke Paireepinart]

Barton David wrote:
> I like that I can access the contents of a zip archive that's stored 
> in memory (rather than on disk) by packing the archive contents into a 
> StringIO or cStringIO object and feeding that to ZipFile...
>  
> i.e.
>  
> filelike=cStringIO.StringIO(archive_as_string)
> zf=zipfile.ZipFile(filelike)
> content=zf.read(archive_member_name)
> zf.close()
> filelike.close()
>  
> but I can't get the same thing to work with TarFile. Is there any way 
> to do this? (Other than first saving the archive data to disk and then 
> passing the path to TarFile.open?) The tarfile module documentation 
> talks about an optional fileobj flag but this doesn't seem to work.
What did you try? What was the error message?

>  
> cheers
> Dave
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