Message97807
On Friday 15 January 2010 11:51:24 am Lars Gustäbel wrote:
> Lars Gustäbel <lars@gustaebel.de> added the comment:
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> First, use a string pathname for extractall(). Most likely, your script is
> going to work. Convert all pathnames to strings using
> sys.getfilesystemencoding() before you add() them. Ensure that all systems
> you are going to use the archives on have the same filesystem encoding,
> e.g. utf-8.
Unfortunately, that is beyond my control. Am I then totally out of luck? Would
the implementation of tarfile in 3.0 be useable on 2.6 (perhaps with small
modifications?)
> Pax archives are probably the best choice if you plan to keep
> the archives for several years. If you simply want to transfer data from
> one system to the other throwing the archives away afterwards, the format
> is rather irrelevant.
The archives are throw-away, transfer only, but they could be used on any
system. |
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