[Tutor] Reading gzip files

[David]

David wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/python
> import tarfile
> tFile = tarfile.open("/home/david/zip_files/zip.tar.gz", "r")
> for f in tFile.getnames():
>     print f
>     tFile.close()
> #fname = "out.txt"
> #fobj = open(fname, 'w')
> #for line in f:
> #    fobj.write(line + '/n')
> #tFile.close()
> #fobj.close()
> 
> My problem is I can not figure out how to write to the file with new
> lines, as you can see my attempts at the bottom. This works fine in Linux;
> ./py_list_zip.py >> out.txt
> 
> but I want to learn how to do it within python, plus to understand.
> 
> any hints :)
> 
> thanks
> -david
> 
> 
> 
oops should have been;
    fobj.write(line + '\n')
still does not work, now here is the output from the print statment;
zip/
zip/py_database.py
zip/print_time.py
and out.txt
z
i
p
/
p
r
i
n
t
_
t
i
m
e
.
p
y

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