Uwe Mayer wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to delete a file from a tar-archive using the tarfile module?
Thanks
Uwe
It doesn't appear so. A workaround, of course, is to create a new file
with the subset of files from the old file:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import tarfile
import os
def removeFile(filename, nameToDelete):
"""Remove nameToDelete from tarfile filename."""
prefix, ext = os.path.splitext(filename)
newFilename = '%(prefix)s-modified%(ext)s' % locals()
original = tarfile.open(filename)
modified = tarfile.open(newFilename, 'w')
for info in original.getmembers():
if info.name == nameToDelete:
continue
extracted = original.extractfile(info)
if not extracted:
continue
modified.addfile(info, extracted)
original.close()
modified.close()
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