How to create full compressed tar file using Python?
How can I create a .tar.gz file with compression in Python? To build a .tar.gz (aka .tgz ) for an entire directory tree: import tarfile 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)) 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". You call tarfile.open with mode='w:gz' , meaning "Open for