Hi, look at the module reference at python documentation: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-tarfile.html You can see there an is_tarfile to check if it is a tar file, or you can use TarFileCompat to check if it is a tar_gzipped file. Alan wrote: > Hi There, > > So I have a form where users can upload zip and tgz file. In my def > clean_file() for class MyForm, I can clean zip files smoothly and now > I am trying the same for a tgz file but missing things. > > First, fileobj = self.cleaned_data['file'] will return a fileobj, so I > tried: > > tar = tarfile.open(fileobj=fileobj) > > but then I cannot do anything with 'tar'. I mean, tar.list() returns > nothing. Even worse, my fileobj can be any thing, a 'zip' for example, > and tarfile.open doesn't seem to check for that as it does if it was a > file like 'myfile.tgz' or 'myfile.zip', failing to open for the former. > > I tried google and also StringIO, but without success. All I want is > to check if the supposed tgz file is a valid tgz file as I do for a > zip file. > > Many thanks in avance, > Alan > > -- > Alan Wilter S. da Silva, D.Sc. - CCPN Research Associate > Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge. > 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK. > >>http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/~awd28 <http://www.bio.cam.ac.uk/%7Eawd28><< > > >
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