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Re: tarfile : read from a socket?

From Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: tarfile : read from a socket?
Date 2016-02-11 11:47 +0100
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On 02/11/2016 09:31 AM, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> https://docs.python.org/2/library/tarfile.html says:
>
>  tarfile.open(name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, bufsize=10240, **kwargs)
>
>     Return a TarFile object for the pathname name.
>
>
> (How) can I read a tar file from a (tcp) socket?
> I do not have a pathname but a socket object from socket.create_connection

# First you construct a file object with makefile.

fo = socket.makefile()

# Then you use the fileobj argument with tarfile.open.

tarfile.open(mode='r', fileobj = fo)

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tarfile : read from a socket? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2016-02-11 08:31 +0000
  Re: tarfile : read from a socket? INADA Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com> - 2016-02-11 19:26 +0900
  Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2016-02-11 11:47 +0100
    Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2016-02-11 12:53 +0000
      Re: tarfile : read from a socket? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-02-11 13:16 +0000
      Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-02-12 00:18 +1100
        Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2016-02-11 13:34 +0000
      Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2016-02-11 13:25 +0000
        Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2016-02-11 16:41 +0000
          Re: tarfile : read from a socket? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-02-11 17:10 +0000
          modifying a standard module? (was: Re: tarfile : read from a socket?) Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2016-02-11 17:10 +0000
            Re: modifying a standard module? (was: Re: tarfile : read from a socket?) Matt Wheeler <m@funkyhat.org> - 2016-02-12 20:53 +0000
              Re: modifying a standard module? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2016-02-12 22:46 +0000
                Re: modifying a standard module? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-02-12 16:21 -0800
          Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2016-02-11 18:18 +0100
          Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> - 2016-02-11 18:27 +0100
          Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-02-11 16:23 -0500
          Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2016-02-12 09:35 +0100
          Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> - 2016-02-12 09:40 +0100
            Re: tarfile : read from a socket? Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> - 2016-02-12 12:48 +0000

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