Note: Starting with python 2.7.4, this is a non-issue for ZIP archives. Details at the bottom of the answer. This answer focuses on tar archives. To figure out where a path really points to, use os.path.abspath() (but note the caveat about symlinks as path components). If you normalize a path from your zipfile with abspath … Read more
BytesIO() from IO module does exactly what you need. import tarfile, io byte_array = client.read_bytes() file_like_object = io.BytesIO(byte_array) tar = tarfile.open(fileobj=file_like_object) # use “tar” as a regular TarFile object for member in tar.getmembers(): f = tar.extractfile(member) print(f)
$ ls -la chardet-1.0.1.tgz -rwxr-xr-x 1 vinko vinko 179218 2008-10-20 17:49 chardet-1.0.1.tgz $ python Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jul 31 2008, 22:53:39) [GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2 Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information. >>> f = open(‘chardet-1.0.1.tgz’,’rb’) >>> f.seek(0, os.SEEK_END) >>> f.tell() 179218L Adding ChrisJY’s idea to the example >>> import os … Read more
To build a .tar.gz (aka .tgz) for an entire directory tree: import tarfile import os.path def make_tarfile(output_filename, source_dir): with tarfile.open(output_filename, “w:gz”) as tar: tar.add(source_dir, arcname=os.path.basename(source_dir)) This will create a gzipped tar archive containing a single top-level folder with the same name and contents as source_dir.