[BangPypers] Extracting tar.gz file

[Dhananjay Nene]

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.nene at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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?
>>
>> You may want to check out
http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-tarfile-doesn%27t-work-with-tgz-files--p23576622.html


> Thanks in advance
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>> Thanks & Regards
>> V.Murugadoss
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