Hello,
I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I
tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to
specify the highest (9) compression level for gzip.
Ideally:
t = tarfile.open(tar_file_name+'.tar.gz', mode='w:gz:9')
When I create a simple tar
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I
tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to
specify the highest (9) compression level for gzip.
Ideally:
t =
Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote:
I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I
tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to
specify the highest (9) compression level for gzip.
Ideally:
t =
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote:
Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Esmailebo...@hotmail.com wrote:
I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I
tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 08:50:21AM -0400, Esmail wrote:
I was wondering if it possible to specify a compression level when I
tar/gzip a file in Python using the tarfile module. I would like to
specify the highest (9) compression level for gzip.
tarfile uses gzip.GzipFile() internally,
Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
I can't find tarfile.gzopen in the tarfile docs, I'm looking here:
http://docs.python.org/library/tarfile.html
Am I looking at the wrong page?
My mistake. It isn't a function of the tarfile module, it's a class
method of tarfile.TarFile. I was looking at the
Hi Lars,
Lars Gustäbel wrote:
How much smaller is it? I did a test with a recent Linux kernel source tree
which made an archive of 337MB. Command-line gzip was ahead of Python's
GzipFile() by just 20200 bytes(!) with an archive of about 74MB.
Is the only way to accomplish the higher rate to
