creating tar file and streaming it over HTTP?

[Steve Holden]

r0g wrote:
> pbienst wrote:
>> I would like to bundle up a number of files in a tar file and send it
>> over a HTTP connection, but I would like to do this without creating
>> the tar file on disk first.
>>
> 
> Stringio lets you treat a strings as a files...
> 
> http://docs.python.org/library/stringio.html
> 
> Roger.

... though that does mean that the whole tar file has to be created
before it can be sent, I suspect. If it will comfortably fit into memory
that shouldn't matter, of course.

regards
 Steve
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