[Tutor] tar a directory

[Ben Finney]

Bill Nolf <bn58243 at gmail.com> writes:

> python version 2.6.6
>
> I'm trying to tar/gzip a directory, the directory is defined as an variable
>
> I want to tar and gzip the directory archive in the example below:
>
> import tarfile
> dirarchive = /a/b/c/archive

This code will not run.

I can guess what you might mean, but the larger problem is: You are
obviously running different code from what you present here to us.

Can you instead make a complete, simple example that *you* have run, and
you know the result? That way, we will all be looking at the same code
and the same behaviour.

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Ben Finney