On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:01 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there a way to open a file that is inside of an ISO in python?
>
> Say I have an ISO file, danikars.iso and on the iso there is a file
> called information.txt
>
> I want to be able to do something like this.
>
> [code]
> iso_h = openiso("danikars.iso")
> file_h = iso_h.extract("information.txt")
> contents = file_h.read()
> [/code]
>
> Is there anything that will give me that functionality? Or close?
>
Under Linux you can mount iso files as loopback devices.
eg:
mkdir mnt
sudo mount -o loop file.iso ./mnt
Then the ./mnt directory will 'contain' the contents of the iso
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