[BangPypers] Extracting tar.gz file

murugadoss murugadoss2884 at gmail.com
Thu May 27 03:21:10 CEST 2010


Hello,
Thanks for the Reply.
I am able to extract the file manually, using "tar -xzvf sample.tar.gz"
command.
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Thanks & Regards
V.Murugadoss


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Dhananjay Nene
<dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>wrote:

> Instinctively, the error seems to be opening the file and not with the
> tarfile decoding.
> You may want to check if  open("sample.tar.gz","r") works.
>
> Dhananjay
>
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:19 AM, murugadoss <murugadoss2884 at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to extract tar.gz file using python script. when i do so, i
> get
> > an error,
> >
> >   tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz","r")
> >  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1153, in open
> >    raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully")
> > tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully
> >
> > can anyone say me, what this error exactly and how to solve this?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
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> > Thanks & Regards
> > V.Murugadoss
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