Instinctively, the error seems to be opening the file and not with the
tarfile decoding.
You may want to check if open("sample.tar.gz","r") works.
Dhananjay
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:19 AM, murugadoss <murugadoss2...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to extract tar.gz file using python script. when i do so, i get
> an error,
>
> tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz","r")
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/tarfile.py", line 1153, in open
> raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully")
> tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully
>
> can anyone say me, what this error exactly and how to solve this?
>
> Thanks in advance
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> V.Murugadoss
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