[Tutor] How to read content in a tar file with tarfile module

[Hugo González Monteverde]

Magnus Wirström wrote:
> I have written a app that makes a tar file and all works well... Now i 
> want to expand that app so it can read read the tar and give me the 
> contents of the tar file. How is the best way to do this ? I can't find 
> a "listdir" like function in tarfile. Can anyone point me in the right 
> direction?

Hi, is this what you're looking for?? (tarfile Object docs)

getmembers( )

Return the members of the archive as a list of TarInfo objects. The list 
has the same order as the members in the archive.

getnames( )

Return the members as a list of their names. It has the same order as 
the list returned by getmembers().

Hugo