[Tutor] Installing the uncertainties module

[Richard D. Moores]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 21:37, Richard D. Moores <rdmoores at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 18:31, Richard D. Moores <rdmoores at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The uncertainties module (<http://packages.python.org/uncertainties/>)
>> is now available for 64-bit Python 3.2. I've downloaded
>> uncertainties-1.8.tar.gz. I need some utility that will handle both
>> .gz and .tar, I presume. Looking for recommendations.
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>> Dick Moores
>> Python 3.2.2
>> 64-bit Win 7
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> Thanks for the suggestions. Right after I posted, I remembered <http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/freeware.html>, and went with  Peazip, which did the job.
> I am curious about how I could have done this just with  the tarfile module. I'll look into that.

Hm. Problem:

>>> import tarfile
>>> tar = tarfile.open("C:\Users\Richard\Desktop\uncertainties-1.8.tar.gz")
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes
in position 2-4: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

What to do?

Thanks,

Dick