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Re: tarfile : read from a socket?

From MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: tarfile : read from a socket?
Date 2016-02-11 13:16 +0000
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On 2016-02-11 12:53, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
>
>> > (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)
>
>
> I have:
>
>    sock = socket.create_connection((server,port))
>    bs = kB64
>    taro = tarfile.open(fileobj=sock.makefile('w',kB64),mode='w')
>
>
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    (...)
>    File "./fexit.py", line 1838, in sex_send
>      taro = tarfile.open(fileobj=sock.makefile('w',kB64),mode='w')
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1695, in open
>      return cls.taropen(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1705, in taropen
>      return cls(name, mode, fileobj, **kwargs)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 1566, in __init__
>      self.offset = self.fileobj.tell()
> AttributeError: '_fileobject' object has no attribute 'tell'
>
I suppose you could write your own class to wrap the socket and provide 
the required methods.

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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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