How to create full compressed tar file using Python

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How can I create a  tar gz file with compression in Python

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To build a  tar gz  aka  tgz  for an entire directory tree   import tarfile import os path  def make tarfile output filename  source dir       with tarfile open output filename   w gz   as tar          tar add source dir  arcname os path basename source dir     This will create a gzipped tar archive containing a single top-level folder with the same name and contents as source dir

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You call tarfile open with mode  w gz   meaning  Open for gzip compressed writing    You ll probably want to end the filename  the name argument to open  with  tar gz  but that doesn t affect compression abilities   BTW  you usually get better compression with a mode of  w bz2   just like tar can usually compress even better with bzip2 than it can compress with gzip

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In this  tar gz file compress in open view directory  In solve use os path basename file directory   with tarfile open  save tar gz   w gz          for file in   a txt   b log   c png               tar add os path basename file     its use in tar gz file compress in directory

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import tarfile tar   tarfile open  sample tar gz    w gz   for name in   file1    file2    file3        tar add name  tar close     If you want to create a tar bz2 compressed file  just replace file extension name with   tar bz2  and  w gz  with  w bz2

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In addition to  Aleksandr Tukallo s answer  you could also obtain the output and error message  if occurs   Compressing a folder using tar is explained pretty well on the following answer   import traceback import subprocess  try      cmd     tar    czfj   output filename  file to archive      output   subprocess check output cmd  decode  utf-8   strip        print output            except Exception             print f E   traceback format exc

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Previous answers advise using the tarfile Python module for creating a  tar gz file in Python  That s obviously a good and Python-style solution  but it has serious drawback in speed of the archiving  This question mentions that tarfile is approximately two times slower than the tar utility in Linux  According to my experience this estimation is pretty correct   So for faster archiving you can use the tar command using subprocess module   subprocess call   tar    -czf   output filename  file to archive

[python] How to create full compressed tar file using Python?

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