Re: [Python-ideas] Add a "archive_tree" in the tarfile module

Tarek Ziadé wrote:

Hello,

It happened to me several time : re-write a small function to archive a directory, to mimic "tar -xzvf archive.tgz directory"

What about adding in tarfile this small function:

def archive_tree(archive_name, src_dir [[, add_empty_dir], callable]) -> creates an archive that contains the files in directory, by recursively walking into it.

              if  add_empty_dir is set to False (default: True),

empty directory founded will not be added

              if callable is provided, it will be triggered

everytime a file is added in the archive and will return True or False

              If False, the file will not be added

regards Tarek

I would call the callback-function "filter" or similar.

-panzi