I have a tar file. The content of the file are as following. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12-08-04 $ tar tvf 20041208.tar drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2004-12-08 21:39:19 20041208/ -rw-r--r-- root/root 1576 2004-12-08 21:39:19 20041208/README drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2004-12-08 21:27:31 20041208/snapshot_01/ -rw-r--r-- was/was 103010606 2004-12-08 16:37:38 20041208/snapshot_01/tpv-2004 1208-1350.xml.gz
What is the best method to read the content of the tpv-20041208-1350.xml.gz? I want to do the following with minimum code :-) 1) read above tar file 2) find the gzip file 3) read the content of this file 4) perform operations on content 5) continue I tried various combination of following code but it does not work as intended fileName = sys.argv[1] print "File Name is ", fileName tar = tarfile.open(fileName, "r:") for tarinfo in tar: if tarinfo.isreg(): print tarinfo.name if tarinfo.name.find("tpv") != -1: #read the gzip file print "\thttp plugin file" fileLike = tar.extractfile(tarinfo) fileText = fileLike.read() stringio = StringIO.StringIO(fileText) fileRead = gzip.GzipFile(stringio) for aLine in fileRead: print aLine -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list