Re: [Tutor] tar a directory

2016-11-04 Thread Alan Gauld via Tutor
On 03/11/16 17:56, Bill Nolf wrote: > Test 4 > > archive = tarfile.open("test.tgz", "a:gz") > archive.add=(dirarchive, arcname="test") > archive.close() > > Create a gzip file called test.tgz in the current directory, which is close > but no cigar > What I would like is the following gzip file:

Re: [Tutor] tar a directory

2016-11-03 Thread Ben Finney
Bill Nolf writes: > python version 2.6.6 > > I'm trying to tar/gzip a directory, the directory is defined as an variable > > I want to tar and gzip the directory archive in the example below: > > import tarfile > dirarchive = /a/b/c/archive This code will not run. I can guess what you might mea

[Tutor] tar a directory

2016-11-03 Thread Bill Nolf
python version 2.6.6 I'm trying to tar/gzip a directory, the directory is defined as an variable I want to tar and gzip the directory archive in the example below: import tarfile dirarchive = /a/b/c/archive Test 1 tar.add(dirarchive) Error: name 'tar' not defined Test 2 tarfile.add(dirarch