[BangPypers] Extracting tar.gz file

Dhananjay Nene dhananjay.nene at gmail.com
Thu May 27 03:09:22 CEST 2010


Instinctively, the error seems to be opening the file and not with the
tarfile decoding.
You may want to check if  open("sample.tar.gz","r") works.

Dhananjay

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:19 AM, murugadoss <murugadoss2884 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to extract tar.gz file using python script. when i do so, i get
> an error,
>
>   tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz","r")
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1153, in open
>    raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully")
> tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully
>
> can anyone say me, what this error exactly and how to solve this?
>
> Thanks in advance
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> V.Murugadoss
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