This module provides a few functions for creating archive files, such as tarballs or zipfiles.
base_name, format[, root_dir=None, base_dir=None, verbose=0, dry_run=0]) |
zip or tar). base_name
is the name of the file to create, minus any format-specific extension;
format is the archive format: one of zip, tar,
ztar, or gztar.
root_dir is a directory that will be the root directory of the
archive; ie. we typically chdir into root_dir before
creating the archive. base_dir is the directory where we start
archiving from; ie. base_dir will be the common prefix of all files and
directories in the archive. root_dir and base_dir both default
to the current directory. Returns the name of the archive file.
Warning: This should be changed to support bz2 files
base_name, base_dir[, compress='gzip', verbose=0, dry_run=0]) |
'gzip' (the default),
'compress', 'bzip2', or None. Both tar
and the compression utility named by compress must be on the
default program search path, so this is probably Unix-specific. The
output tar file will be named base_dir.tar, possibly plus
the appropriate compression extension (.gz, .bz2 or
.Z). Return the output filename.
Warning: This should be replaced with calls to the tarfile module.
base_name, base_dir[, verbose=0, dry_run=0]) |
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