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On 2016-02-11 16:41, Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> Ulli Horlacher <framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
>
>> With
>>
>>   taro = tarfile.open(fileobj=sock.makefile('w',kB64),mode='w|')
>>
>> I get no more error.
>
> Of course, this is the writing client.
>
> Now I have a small problem with the reading client.
>
> This code works so far:
>
>    sfo = sock.makefile('r')
>    taro = tarfile.open(fileobj=sfo,mode='r|')
>    taro.extractall(path=edir)
>
> But it does not writes anything to the terminal to inform the user.
>
> When I use:
>
>    for member in taro.getmembers():
>        print('extracting "%s"' % member.name)
>        taro.extract(member)
>
> I get the error:
>
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.7/tarfile.py", line 556, in seek
>      raise StreamError("seeking backwards is not allowed")
>
> Of course, a stream is not seekable.
>
> Any ideas?
>
Try this:

member = taro.next()
while member is not None:
     print('extracting "%s"' % member.name)
     taro.extract(member)
     member = tar.next()