Create TarFile using python

[itzel]

I have a problem. I'm new in python and I need a script that group a
list of files using Tar file utility and then, compress that block
using a compress utility (gzip i think). I already found some
information and i try to apply it, but my scripy doesn't work. The
first problem is when I had tried to open the file that i want to
group, a IO error appear:

f = open(log, "r")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\path"

I previusly asigned to "log" the path of the archive that i want to
group....

could sombody helpme???.

 

[Peter Maas]

I have a problem. I'm new in python and I need a script that group a
list of files using Tar file utility and then, compress that block
using a compress utility (gzip i think). I already found some
information and i try to apply it, but my scripy doesn't work.

Did you look here?:

http://docs.python.org/lib/tar-examples.html

Peter Maas, Aachen

 

[Yu-Xi Lim]

I have a problem. I'm new in python and I need a script that group a
list of files using Tar file utility and then, compress that block
using a compress utility (gzip i think). I already found some
information and i try to apply it, but my scripy doesn't work. The
first problem is when I had tried to open the file that i want to
group, a IO error appear:

f = open(log, "r")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'C:\\path"

I previusly asigned to "log" the path of the archive that i want to
group....

could sombody helpme???.

I'm going to guess that 'C:\\path' is a directory. You can't open
directories using open()/file().

There's an example in the Python Cookbook. Can't find it online (recipe
2.11 if you have the print edition), but a close example is
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/299412

 

[Yu-Xi Lim]

Did you look here?:

http://docs.python.org/lib/tar-examples.html

Peter Maas, Aachen

It doesn't show him how to archive a directory.

 

[Gerold Penz]

I need a script that group a
list of files using Tar file utility and then, compress that block
using a compress utility (gzip i think).

Hi!

This script packs all files and directories inside the ``source_dir``
into the TAR-GZ-Archive (``destination``):


import os.path
import tarfile

def to_tar_gz(source_dir, destination):
"""
aram source_dir: Source directory name.
aram destination: Destination filename.
(TAR-GZ-Archive *.tar.gz)
"""

t = tarfile.open(name = destination, mode = 'w:gz')
t.add(source_dir, os.path.basename(source))
t.close()

return True


Regards,
Gerold



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[itzel]

yes, i did. I'm checking the link in ASPN and I think that it'll works
for "my problem" ....thanks a lot!! One more question... I'll need do
it frecuently: add more directories into the same block. Is the same
procedure?

Thanks!!!

ps. sorry about gramatic, I don't write english frecuently....


Yu-Xi Lim ha escrito:

 

[timothyasir]

compress the folder to tar gz using python.

import os.path
import tarfile
import time

def compress_folder_to_tar_gz(source_dir, tar_file_name=None):

if tar_file_name is None:
tar_file_name = source_dir

tar_file_name += '.tar.gz'

#creating archive of source directory

try:
tarFile = tarfile.open(tar_file_name, mode = 'w:gz')
tarFile.add(source_dir)
tarFile.close()

return True

except:
return None