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Tarballing a directory in Python
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tarball_test.py
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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