Hello, Thanks for the Reply. I am able to extract the file manually, using "tar -xzvf sample.tar.gz" command. -- Thanks & Regards V.Murugadoss
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Dhananjay Nene <[email protected]>wrote: > Instinctively, the error seems to be opening the file and not with the > tarfile decoding. > You may want to check if open("sample.tar.gz","r") works. > > Dhananjay > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:19 AM, murugadoss <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to extract tar.gz file using python script. when i do so, i > get > > an error, > > > > tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz","r") > > File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1153, in open > > raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully") > > tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully > > > > can anyone say me, what this error exactly and how to solve this? > > > > Thanks in advance > > -- > > Thanks & Regards > > V.Murugadoss > > _______________________________________________ > > BangPypers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------- > blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com > twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
