Tarfile.open(cls, name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, bufsize=10240, **kwargs) method of __builtin__.type instance
    Open a tar archive for reading, writing or appending. Return an appropriate TarFile class.
   
    mode:
    'r' or 'r:*' open for reading with transparent compression
    'r:'         open for reading exclusively uncompressed
    'r:gz'       open for reading with gzip compression
    'r:bz2'      open for reading with bzip2 compression
    'a' or 'a:'  open for appending, creating the file if necessary
    'w' or 'w:'  open for writing without compression
    'w:gz'       open for writing with gzip compression
    'w:bz2'      open for writing with bzip2 compression
   
    'r|*'        open a stream of tar blocks with transparent compression
    'r|'         open an uncompressed stream of tar blocks for reading
    'r|gz'       open a gzip compressed stream of tar blocks
    'r|bz2'      open a bzip2 compressed stream of tar blocks
    'w|'         open an uncompressed stream for writing
    'w|gz'       open a gzip compressed stream for writing
    'w|bz2'      open a bzip2 compressed stream for writing
 
 
1 ．压缩，创建tar.gz包
 
#!/usr/bin/env python
 
import os
import tarfile
 
# 创建压缩包名
 
tar = tarfile.open("/tmp/tartest.tar.gz","w:gz")
 
# 创建压缩包
 
for root,dir,files in os.walk("/tmp/tartest"):
 
 
 
        for file in files:
                fullpath = os.path.join(root,file)
                tar.add(fullpath)
 
tar.close()
 
 
2 ．解压tar.gz包
 
#!/usr/bin/env python
 
import tarfile
 
tar = tarfile.open(“/tmp/tartest.tar.gz”)
names = tar.getnames()
 
for name in names:
       tar.extract(name,path=”/tmp”)
 
tar.close()
 
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