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:mod:`tarfile` --- Read and write tar archive files
===================================================
.. module:: tarfile
:synopsis: Read and write tar-format archive files.
.. moduleauthor:: Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de>
.. sectionauthor:: Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de>
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**Source code:** :source:`Lib/tarfile.py`
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The :mod:`tarfile` module makes it possible to read and write tar
archives, including those using gzip, bz2 and lzma compression.
Use the :mod:`zipfile` module to read or write :file:`.zip` files, or the
higher-level functions in :ref:`shutil <archiving-operations>`.
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Some facts and figures:
* reads and writes :mod:`gzip`, :mod:`bz2` and :mod:`lzma` compressed archives.
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* read/write support for the POSIX.1-1988 (ustar) format.
* read/write support for the GNU tar format including *longname* and *longlink*
extensions, read-only support for all variants of the *sparse* extension
including restoration of sparse files.
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* read/write support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format.
* handles directories, regular files, hardlinks, symbolic links, fifos,
character devices and block devices and is able to acquire and restore file
information like timestamp, access permissions and owner.
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
Added support for :mod:`lzma` compression.
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.. function:: open(name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, bufsize=10240, \*\*kwargs)
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Return a :class:`TarFile` object for the pathname *name*. For detailed
information on :class:`TarFile` objects and the keyword arguments that are
allowed, see :ref:`tarfile-objects`.
*mode* has to be a string of the form ``'filemode[:compression]'``, it defaults
to ``'r'``. Here is a full list of mode combinations:
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| mode | action |
+==================+=============================================+
| ``'r' or 'r:*'`` | Open for reading with transparent |
| | compression (recommended). |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``'r:'`` | Open for reading exclusively without |
| | compression. |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``'r:gz'`` | Open for reading with gzip compression. |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``'r:bz2'`` | Open for reading with bzip2 compression. |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``'r:xz'`` | Open for reading with lzma compression. |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
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| ``'a' or 'a:'`` | Open for appending with no compression. The |
| | file is created if it does not exist. |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``'w' or 'w:'`` | Open for uncompressed writing. |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``'w:gz'`` | Open for gzip compressed writing. |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``'w:bz2'`` | Open for bzip2 compressed writing. |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
| ``'w:xz'`` | Open for lzma compressed writing. |
+------------------+---------------------------------------------+
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Note that ``'a:gz'``, ``'a:bz2'`` or ``'a:xz'`` is not possible. If *mode*
is not suitable to open a certain (compressed) file for reading,
:exc:`ReadError` is raised. Use *mode* ``'r'`` to avoid this. If a
compression method is not supported, :exc:`CompressionError` is raised.
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If *fileobj* is specified, it is used as an alternative to a :term:`file object`
opened in binary mode for *name*. It is supposed to be at position 0.
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For special purposes, there is a second format for *mode*:
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``'filemode|[compression]'``. :func:`tarfile.open` will return a :class:`TarFile`
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object that processes its data as a stream of blocks. No random seeking will
be done on the file. If given, *fileobj* may be any object that has a
:meth:`read` or :meth:`write` method (depending on the *mode*). *bufsize*
specifies the blocksize and defaults to ``20 * 512`` bytes. Use this variant
in combination with e.g. ``sys.stdin``, a socket :term:`file object` or a tape
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device. However, such a :class:`TarFile` object is limited in that it does
not allow to be accessed randomly, see :ref:`tar-examples`. The currently
possible modes:
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
| Mode | Action |
+=============+============================================+
| ``'r|*'`` | Open a *stream* of tar blocks for reading |
| | with transparent compression. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
| ``'r|'`` | Open a *stream* of uncompressed tar blocks |
| | for reading. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
| ``'r|gz'`` | Open a gzip compressed *stream* for |
| | reading. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
| ``'r|bz2'`` | Open a bzip2 compressed *stream* for |
| | reading. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
| ``'r|xz'`` | Open a lzma compressed *stream* for |
| | reading. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
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| ``'w|'`` | Open an uncompressed *stream* for writing. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
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| ``'w|gz'`` | Open a gzip compressed *stream* for |
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| | writing. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
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| ``'w|bz2'`` | Open a bzip2 compressed *stream* for |
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| | writing. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
| ``'w|xz'`` | Open an lzma compressed *stream* for |
| | writing. |
+-------------+--------------------------------------------+
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.. class:: TarFile
Class for reading and writing tar archives. Do not use this class directly,
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better use :func:`tarfile.open` instead. See :ref:`tarfile-objects`.
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.. function:: is_tarfile(name)
Return :const:`True` if *name* is a tar archive file, that the :mod:`tarfile`
module can read.
The :mod:`tarfile` module defines the following exceptions:
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.. exception:: TarError
Base class for all :mod:`tarfile` exceptions.
.. exception:: ReadError
Is raised when a tar archive is opened, that either cannot be handled by the
:mod:`tarfile` module or is somehow invalid.
.. exception:: CompressionError
Is raised when a compression method is not supported or when the data cannot be
decoded properly.
.. exception:: StreamError
Is raised for the limitations that are typical for stream-like :class:`TarFile`
objects.
.. exception:: ExtractError
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Is raised for *non-fatal* errors when using :meth:`TarFile.extract`, but only if
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:attr:`TarFile.errorlevel`\ ``== 2``.
.. exception:: HeaderError
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Is raised by :meth:`TarInfo.frombuf` if the buffer it gets is invalid.
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Each of the following constants defines a tar archive format that the
:mod:`tarfile` module is able to create. See section :ref:`tar-formats` for
details.
.. data:: USTAR_FORMAT
POSIX.1-1988 (ustar) format.
.. data:: GNU_FORMAT
GNU tar format.
.. data:: PAX_FORMAT
POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format.
.. data:: DEFAULT_FORMAT
The default format for creating archives. This is currently :const:`GNU_FORMAT`.
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The following variables are available on module level:
.. data:: ENCODING
The default character encoding: ``'utf-8'`` on Windows,
:func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` otherwise.
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.. seealso::
Module :mod:`zipfile`
Documentation of the :mod:`zipfile` standard module.
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`GNU tar manual, Basic Tar Format <http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Standard.html>`_
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Documentation for tar archive files, including GNU tar extensions.
.. _tarfile-objects:
TarFile Objects
---------------
The :class:`TarFile` object provides an interface to a tar archive. A tar
archive is a sequence of blocks. An archive member (a stored file) is made up of
a header block followed by data blocks. It is possible to store a file in a tar
archive several times. Each archive member is represented by a :class:`TarInfo`
object, see :ref:`tarinfo-objects` for details.
A :class:`TarFile` object can be used as a context manager in a :keyword:`with`
statement. It will automatically be closed when the block is completed. Please
note that in the event of an exception an archive opened for writing will not
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be finalized; only the internally used file object will be closed. See the
:ref:`tar-examples` section for a use case.
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.. class:: TarFile(name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, format=DEFAULT_FORMAT, tarinfo=TarInfo, dereference=False, ignore_zeros=False, encoding=ENCODING, errors='surrogateescape', pax_headers=None, debug=0, errorlevel=0)
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All following arguments are optional and can be accessed as instance attributes
as well.
*name* is the pathname of the archive. It can be omitted if *fileobj* is given.
In this case, the file object's :attr:`name` attribute is used if it exists.
*mode* is either ``'r'`` to read from an existing archive, ``'a'`` to append
data to an existing file or ``'w'`` to create a new file overwriting an existing
one.
If *fileobj* is given, it is used for reading or writing data. If it can be
determined, *mode* is overridden by *fileobj*'s mode. *fileobj* will be used
from position 0.
.. note::
*fileobj* is not closed, when :class:`TarFile` is closed.
*format* controls the archive format. It must be one of the constants
:const:`USTAR_FORMAT`, :const:`GNU_FORMAT` or :const:`PAX_FORMAT` that are
defined at module level.
The *tarinfo* argument can be used to replace the default :class:`TarInfo` class
with a different one.
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is :const:`True`, add the content of the target files to the archive. This has no
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effect on systems that do not support symbolic links.
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If it is :const:`True`, skip empty (and invalid) blocks and try to get as many members
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as possible. This is only useful for reading concatenated or damaged archives.
*debug* can be set from ``0`` (no debug messages) up to ``3`` (all debug
messages). The messages are written to ``sys.stderr``.
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Nevertheless, they appear as error messages in the debug output, when debugging
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is enabled. If ``1``, all *fatal* errors are raised as :exc:`OSError`
exceptions. If ``2``, all *non-fatal* errors are raised as :exc:`TarError`
exceptions as well.
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The *encoding* and *errors* arguments define the character encoding to be
used for reading or writing the archive and how conversion errors are going
to be handled. The default settings will work for most users.
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See section :ref:`tar-unicode` for in-depth information.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
Use ``'surrogateescape'`` as the default for the *errors* argument.
The *pax_headers* argument is an optional dictionary of strings which
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will be added as a pax global header if *format* is :const:`PAX_FORMAT`.
.. method:: TarFile.open(...)
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Alternative constructor. The :func:`tarfile.open` function is actually a
shortcut to this classmethod.
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.. method:: TarFile.getmember(name)
Return a :class:`TarInfo` object for member *name*. If *name* can not be found
in the archive, :exc:`KeyError` is raised.
.. note::
If a member occurs more than once in the archive, its last occurrence is assumed
to be the most up-to-date version.
.. method:: TarFile.getmembers()
Return the members of the archive as a list of :class:`TarInfo` objects. The
list has the same order as the members in the archive.
.. method:: TarFile.getnames()
Return the members as a list of their names. It has the same order as the list
returned by :meth:`getmembers`.
.. method:: TarFile.list(verbose=True)
Print a table of contents to ``sys.stdout``. If *verbose* is :const:`False`,
only the names of the members are printed. If it is :const:`True`, output
similar to that of :program:`ls -l` is produced.
.. method:: TarFile.next()
Return the next member of the archive as a :class:`TarInfo` object, when
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available.
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.. method:: TarFile.extractall(path=".", members=None)
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Extract all members from the archive to the current working directory or
directory *path*. If optional *members* is given, it must be a subset of the
list returned by :meth:`getmembers`. Directory information like owner,
modification time and permissions are set after all members have been extracted.
This is done to work around two problems: A directory's modification time is
reset each time a file is created in it. And, if a directory's permissions do
not allow writing, extracting files to it will fail.
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.. warning::
Never extract archives from untrusted sources without prior inspection.
It is possible that files are created outside of *path*, e.g. members
that have absolute filenames starting with ``"/"`` or filenames with two
dots ``".."``.
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.. method:: TarFile.extract(member, path="", set_attrs=True)
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Extract a member from the archive to the current working directory, using its
full name. Its file information is extracted as accurately as possible. *member*
may be a filename or a :class:`TarInfo` object. You can specify a different
directory using *path*. File attributes (owner, mtime, mode) are set unless
*set_attrs* is False.
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.. note::
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The :meth:`extract` method does not take care of several extraction issues.
In most cases you should consider using the :meth:`extractall` method.
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.. warning::
See the warning for :meth:`extractall`.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
Added the *set_attrs* parameter.
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.. method:: TarFile.extractfile(member)
Extract a member from the archive as a file object. *member* may be a filename
or a :class:`TarInfo` object. If *member* is a regular file or a link, an
:class:`io.BufferedReader` object is returned. Otherwise, :const:`None` is
returned.
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.. versionchanged:: 3.3
Return an :class:`io.BufferedReader` object.
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.. method:: TarFile.add(name, arcname=None, recursive=True, exclude=None, *, filter=None)
Add the file *name* to the archive. *name* may be any type of file
(directory, fifo, symbolic link, etc.). If given, *arcname* specifies an
alternative name for the file in the archive. Directories are added
recursively by default. This can be avoided by setting *recursive* to
:const:`False`. If *exclude* is given, it must be a function that takes one
filename argument and returns a boolean value. Depending on this value the
respective file is either excluded (:const:`True`) or added
(:const:`False`). If *filter* is specified it must be a keyword argument. It
should be a function that takes a :class:`TarInfo` object argument and
returns the changed :class:`TarInfo` object. If it instead returns
:const:`None` the :class:`TarInfo` object will be excluded from the
archive. See :ref:`tar-examples` for an example.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
Added the *filter* parameter.
.. deprecated:: 3.2
The *exclude* parameter is deprecated, please use the *filter* parameter
instead.
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.. method:: TarFile.addfile(tarinfo, fileobj=None)
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Add the :class:`TarInfo` object *tarinfo* to the archive. If *fileobj* is given,
``tarinfo.size`` bytes are read from it and added to the archive. You can
create :class:`TarInfo` objects using :meth:`gettarinfo`.
.. note::
On Windows platforms, *fileobj* should always be opened with mode ``'rb'`` to
avoid irritation about the file size.
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.. method:: TarFile.gettarinfo(name=None, arcname=None, fileobj=None)
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Create a :class:`TarInfo` object for either the file *name* or the :term:`file
object` *fileobj* (using :func:`os.fstat` on its file descriptor). You can modify
some of the :class:`TarInfo`'s attributes before you add it using :meth:`addfile`.
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If given, *arcname* specifies an alternative name for the file in the archive.
.. method:: TarFile.close()
Close the :class:`TarFile`. In write mode, two finishing zero blocks are
appended to the archive.
.. attribute:: TarFile.pax_headers
A dictionary containing key-value pairs of pax global headers.
.. _tarinfo-objects:
TarInfo Objects
---------------
A :class:`TarInfo` object represents one member in a :class:`TarFile`. Aside
from storing all required attributes of a file (like file type, size, time,
permissions, owner etc.), it provides some useful methods to determine its type.
It does *not* contain the file's data itself.
:class:`TarInfo` objects are returned by :class:`TarFile`'s methods
:meth:`getmember`, :meth:`getmembers` and :meth:`gettarinfo`.
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.. class:: TarInfo(name="")
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Create a :class:`TarInfo` object.
.. method:: TarInfo.frombuf(buf)
Create and return a :class:`TarInfo` object from string buffer *buf*.
Raises :exc:`HeaderError` if the buffer is invalid..
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.. method:: TarInfo.fromtarfile(tarfile)
Read the next member from the :class:`TarFile` object *tarfile* and return it as
a :class:`TarInfo` object.
.. method:: TarInfo.tobuf(format=DEFAULT_FORMAT, encoding=ENCODING, errors='surrogateescape')
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Create a string buffer from a :class:`TarInfo` object. For information on the
arguments see the constructor of the :class:`TarFile` class.
.. versionchanged:: 3.2
Use ``'surrogateescape'`` as the default for the *errors* argument.
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A ``TarInfo`` object has the following public data attributes:
.. attribute:: TarInfo.name
Name of the archive member.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.size
Size in bytes.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.mtime
Time of last modification.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.mode
Permission bits.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.type
File type. *type* is usually one of these constants: :const:`REGTYPE`,
:const:`AREGTYPE`, :const:`LNKTYPE`, :const:`SYMTYPE`, :const:`DIRTYPE`,
:const:`FIFOTYPE`, :const:`CONTTYPE`, :const:`CHRTYPE`, :const:`BLKTYPE`,
:const:`GNUTYPE_SPARSE`. To determine the type of a :class:`TarInfo` object
more conveniently, use the ``is_*()`` methods below.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.linkname
Name of the target file name, which is only present in :class:`TarInfo` objects
of type :const:`LNKTYPE` and :const:`SYMTYPE`.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.uid
User ID of the user who originally stored this member.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.gid
Group ID of the user who originally stored this member.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.uname
User name.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.gname
Group name.
.. attribute:: TarInfo.pax_headers
A dictionary containing key-value pairs of an associated pax extended header.
A :class:`TarInfo` object also provides some convenient query methods:
.. method:: TarInfo.isfile()
Return :const:`True` if the :class:`Tarinfo` object is a regular file.
.. method:: TarInfo.isreg()
Same as :meth:`isfile`.
.. method:: TarInfo.isdir()
Return :const:`True` if it is a directory.
.. method:: TarInfo.issym()
Return :const:`True` if it is a symbolic link.
.. method:: TarInfo.islnk()
Return :const:`True` if it is a hard link.
.. method:: TarInfo.ischr()
Return :const:`True` if it is a character device.
.. method:: TarInfo.isblk()
Return :const:`True` if it is a block device.
.. method:: TarInfo.isfifo()
Return :const:`True` if it is a FIFO.
.. method:: TarInfo.isdev()
Return :const:`True` if it is one of character device, block device or FIFO.
.. _tar-examples:
Examples
--------
How to extract an entire tar archive to the current working directory::
import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz")
tar.extractall()
tar.close()
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How to extract a subset of a tar archive with :meth:`TarFile.extractall` using
a generator function instead of a list::
import os
import tarfile
def py_files(members):
for tarinfo in members:
if os.path.splitext(tarinfo.name)[1] == ".py":
yield tarinfo
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz")
tar.extractall(members=py_files(tar))
tar.close()
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How to create an uncompressed tar archive from a list of filenames::
import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar", "w")
for name in ["foo", "bar", "quux"]:
tar.add(name)
tar.close()
The same example using the :keyword:`with` statement::
import tarfile
with tarfile.open("sample.tar", "w") as tar:
for name in ["foo", "bar", "quux"]:
tar.add(name)
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How to read a gzip compressed tar archive and display some member information::
import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "r:gz")
for tarinfo in tar:
print(tarinfo.name, "is", tarinfo.size, "bytes in size and is", end="")
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if tarinfo.isreg():
print("a regular file.")
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elif tarinfo.isdir():
print("a directory.")
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else:
print("something else.")
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tar.close()
How to create an archive and reset the user information using the *filter*
parameter in :meth:`TarFile.add`::
import tarfile
def reset(tarinfo):
tarinfo.uid = tarinfo.gid = 0
tarinfo.uname = tarinfo.gname = "root"
return tarinfo
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "w:gz")
tar.add("foo", filter=reset)
tar.close()
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.. _tar-formats:
Supported tar formats
---------------------
There are three tar formats that can be created with the :mod:`tarfile` module:
* The POSIX.1-1988 ustar format (:const:`USTAR_FORMAT`). It supports filenames
up to a length of at best 256 characters and linknames up to 100 characters. The
maximum file size is 8 GiB. This is an old and limited but widely
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supported format.
* The GNU tar format (:const:`GNU_FORMAT`). It supports long filenames and
linknames, files bigger than 8 GiB and sparse files. It is the de facto
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standard on GNU/Linux systems. :mod:`tarfile` fully supports the GNU tar
extensions for long names, sparse file support is read-only.
* The POSIX.1-2001 pax format (:const:`PAX_FORMAT`). It is the most flexible
format with virtually no limits. It supports long filenames and linknames, large
files and stores pathnames in a portable way. However, not all tar
implementations today are able to handle pax archives properly.
The *pax* format is an extension to the existing *ustar* format. It uses extra
headers for information that cannot be stored otherwise. There are two flavours
of pax headers: Extended headers only affect the subsequent file header, global
headers are valid for the complete archive and affect all following files. All
the data in a pax header is encoded in *UTF-8* for portability reasons.
There are some more variants of the tar format which can be read, but not
created:
* The ancient V7 format. This is the first tar format from Unix Seventh Edition,
storing only regular files and directories. Names must not be longer than 100
characters, there is no user/group name information. Some archives have
miscalculated header checksums in case of fields with non-ASCII characters.
* The SunOS tar extended format. This format is a variant of the POSIX.1-2001
pax format, but is not compatible.
.. _tar-unicode:
Unicode issues
--------------
The tar format was originally conceived to make backups on tape drives with the
main focus on preserving file system information. Nowadays tar archives are
commonly used for file distribution and exchanging archives over networks. One
problem of the original format (which is the basis of all other formats) is
that there is no concept of supporting different character encodings. For
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example, an ordinary tar archive created on a *UTF-8* system cannot be read
correctly on a *Latin-1* system if it contains non-*ASCII* characters. Textual
metadata (like filenames, linknames, user/group names) will appear damaged.
Unfortunately, there is no way to autodetect the encoding of an archive. The
pax format was designed to solve this problem. It stores non-ASCII metadata
using the universal character encoding *UTF-8*.
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The details of character conversion in :mod:`tarfile` are controlled by the
*encoding* and *errors* keyword arguments of the :class:`TarFile` class.
*encoding* defines the character encoding to use for the metadata in the
archive. The default value is :func:`sys.getfilesystemencoding` or ``'ascii'``
as a fallback. Depending on whether the archive is read or written, the
metadata must be either decoded or encoded. If *encoding* is not set
appropriately, this conversion may fail.
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The *errors* argument defines how characters are treated that cannot be
converted. Possible values are listed in section :ref:`codec-base-classes`.
The default scheme is ``'surrogateescape'`` which Python also uses for its
file system calls, see :ref:`os-filenames`.
In case of :const:`PAX_FORMAT` archives, *encoding* is generally not needed
because all the metadata is stored using *UTF-8*. *encoding* is only used in
the rare cases when binary pax headers are decoded or when strings with
surrogate characters are stored.