tars and zips
Robin Becker
robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk
Fri Apr 13 04:43:07 EDT 2001
In article <3AD5F88E.13C645D5 at packeteer.com>, Bob Purvy
<bpurvy at packeteer.com> writes
>hi all,
>
>I have a feeling this is something for which the answer is "get a real
>computer", but anyway:
>
> - on our pSOS platform, we don't have any support for tar, zip, or
>any other archive format. I have Python 2.0 more or less working on it,
>and I've been trying to use the zipfile.py Lib module. Can someone give
>me the short answer on how to inflate a zip file that's been created
>somewhere else? There doesn't seem to be any trivial way to do it,
>unless I'm missing something.
>
> First of all, I haven't found any references to a Python tar module
>anywhere. Am I correct that that doesn't exist?
>
>Anyway, for zip: I've gotten as far as importing zipfile, creating the
>ZipFile object, and listing its contents. But do I need to write some
>Python code to iterate through the files, doing read for each one and
>then writing it? I haven't found any single 'inflate' method anywhere,
>nor the equivalent of 'tar xf'.
what about building the unzip/zip from
ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/infozip/UnZip.html
/Zip.html
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Robin Becker
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