Hello, Thanks for the Reply. I am able to extract the file manually, using "tar -xzvf sample.tar.gz" command.
-- Thanks & Regards V.Murugadoss On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dhananjay Nene <dhananjay.n...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers