Reading Tapes

[Juan Huertas]

Hi all.

My pc has a DAT tape (Windows 2000 Tape0) and i need to read the content of
a tape with unix format, using low level I'ts possible to read from the
device inside python?.

I try:

dat=open('\\.\Tape0','rb').read()

but the system does not open the file (ilegal file name: \\.\Tape0).

Un saludo.