swh.core.tarball module

swh.core.tarball.register_new_archive_formats()

Register new archive formats to uncompress

swh.core.tarball.uncompress(tarpath: str, dest: str)

Uncompress tarpath to dest folder if tarball is supported.

Note that this fixes permissions after successfully uncompressing the archive.

Parameters

• tarpath – path to tarball to uncompress

• dest – the destination folder where to uncompress the tarball

Returns

The nature of the tarball, zip or tar.

Raises

ValueError when a problem occurs during unpacking –

swh.core.tarball.compress(tarpath, nature, dirpath_or_files)

Create a tarball tarpath with nature nature. The content of the tarball is either dirpath’s content (if representing a directory path) or dirpath’s iterable contents.

Compress the directory dirpath’s content to a tarball. The tarball being dumped at tarpath. The nature of the tarball is determined by the nature argument.