Using Gnutar to remove a list of files

[Rob Williscroft]

 wrote in news:1160483644.216310.249760 at m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com in 
comp.lang.python:

> Hi folks, I've got a question for yas.  I'm trying to write code that
> will open up a gzipped tar file using gnutar, and copy the list of
> files(including their directories) to a list variable in python.  From
> there, I want to go through the list and delete those files from my
> system.  That part is easy, but what I'm stuck on is getting the list
> of files in an archive into a list variable.  If I use the -t parameter
> in gnutar, it prints a list of the files in a seperate cmd screen, but
> only returns 0.  Is there any way to make it return a list, or to copy
> the information over?  Thanks in advance!
> 

Perhaps this will help:

http://docs.python.org/lib/tar-examples.html

Rob.
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