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.
Just from reading the docs I would try filelike = cStringIO... tf = tarfile.open(mode='r|', fileobj=filelike) This is based on the example in the docs of reading from stdin. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
