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Anyone know how to read tar files from a pipe in #Python? I'm getting this error when using tarfile.open(path, mode="r|"):
  File "lib/python3.12/tarfile.py", line 690, in read
    self.fileobj.seek(offset + (self.position - start))
  File "lib/python3.12/tarfile.py", line 522, in seek
    raise StreamError("seeking backwards is not allowed")
tarfile.StreamError: seeking backwards is not allowed
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Ryan Frame
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It looks like to write over a pipe, open the file first and pass the handle to tarfile. Might work for reading too?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/25333193

python tarfile writes tar to pipe

I want to create a tar file and pipe it to a http upload. However, seems python tarfile module performs seek which make it impossible to pipe to the next process. Here is the code tar = tarfile....
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Neil E. Hodges
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The solution ended up being replacing intar.extractfile(info.name) with intar.extractfile(info). 👍

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