[Tutor] tar a directory

[Alan Gauld]

On 03/11/16 17:56, Bill Nolf wrote:

> Test 4
> 
> archive = tarfile.open("test.tgz", "a:gz")
> archive.add=(dirarchive, arcname="test")
> archive.close()
> 
> Create a gzip file called test.tgz in the current directory, which is close
> but no cigar
> What I would like is the following gzip file:
> 
> /a/b/c/archive.tgz

So why not:

archive = tarfile.open("/a/b/c/archive.tgz", "a:gz")

or is that too obvious?

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