On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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? >> >> You may want to check out http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A-tarfile-doesn%27t-work-with-tgz-files--p23576622.html > Thanks in advance >> -- >> Thanks & Regards >> V.Murugadoss >> _______________________________________________ >> BangPypers mailing list >> BangPypers@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >> > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------- > blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com > twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene > -- -------------------------------------------------------- blog: http://blog.dhananjaynene.com twitter: http://twitter.com/dnene _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers