On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 21:37, Richard D. Moores <rdmoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 18:31, Richard D. Moores <rdmoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> Dick Moores >> Python 3.2.2 >> 64-bit Win 7 > > 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 _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor