https://docs.python.org/2/library/tarfile.html says:
tarfile.open(name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, bufsize=10240, **kwargs)
Return a TarFile object for the pathname name.
(How) can I read a tar file from a (tcp) socket?
I do not have a pathname but a socket object from socket.create_connection()
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