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Tarballing a directory in Python
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| import tarfile | |
| dir = "/some/directory" | |
| tar = tarfile.open(dir + "/some_file.tar.gz",'w:gz') | |
| tar.add(dir + "/some_subdirectory",arcname='some_subdirectory') | |
| tar.close() |
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