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. cheers Dave
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