tarfile
— Ler e gravar arquivos do tipo tar¶
Código-fonte: Lib/tarfile.py
The tarfile
module makes it possible to read and write tar
archives, including those using gzip, bz2 and lzma compression.
Use the zipfile
module to read or write .zip
files, or the
higher-level functions in shutil.
Some facts and figures:
reads and writes
gzip
,bz2
andlzma
compressed archives if the respective modules are available.read/write support for the POSIX.1-1988 (ustar) format.
read/write support for the GNU tar format including longname and longlink extensions, read-only support for all variants of the sparse extension including restoration of sparse files.
read/write support for the POSIX.1-2001 (pax) format.
handles directories, regular files, hardlinks, symbolic links, fifos, character devices and block devices and is able to acquire and restore file information like timestamp, access permissions and owner.
Alterado na versão 3.3: Adiciona suporte para compressão lzma
.
Alterado na versão 3.12: Archives are extracted using a filter, which makes it possible to either limit surprising/dangerous features, or to acknowledge that they are expected and the archive is fully trusted. By default, archives are fully trusted, but this default is deprecated and slated to change in Python 3.14.
- tarfile.open(name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, bufsize=10240, **kwargs)¶
Return a
TarFile
object for the pathname name. For detailed information onTarFile
objects and the keyword arguments that are allowed, see TarFile Objects.mode has to be a string of the form
'filemode[:compression]'
, it defaults to'r'
. Here is a full list of mode combinations:modo
ação
'r' or 'r:*'
Open for reading with transparent compression (recommended).
'r:'
Open for reading exclusively without compression.
'r:gz'
Aberto para leitura com compactação gzip.
'r:bz2'
Aberto para leitura com compactação bzip2.
'r:xz'
Aberto para leitura com compactação lzma.
'x'
ou'x:'
Create a tarfile exclusively without compression. Raise a
FileExistsError
exception if it already exists.'x:gz'
Create a tarfile with gzip compression. Raise a
FileExistsError
exception if it already exists.'x:bz2'
Create a tarfile with bzip2 compression. Raise a
FileExistsError
exception if it already exists.'x:xz'
Create a tarfile with lzma compression. Raise a
FileExistsError
exception if it already exists.'a' or 'a:'
Open for appending with no compression. The file is created if it does not exist.
'w' or 'w:'
Aberto para gravação não compactada.
'w:gz'
Aberto para gravação compactada com gzip.
'w:bz2'
Aberto para gravação compactada com bzip2.
'w:xz'
Aberto para gravação compactada com lzma.
Note that
'a:gz'
,'a:bz2'
or'a:xz'
is not possible. If mode is not suitable to open a certain (compressed) file for reading,ReadError
is raised. Use mode'r'
to avoid this. If a compression method is not supported,CompressionError
is raised.If fileobj is specified, it is used as an alternative to a file object opened in binary mode for name. It is supposed to be at position 0.
For modes
'w:gz'
,'x:gz'
,'w|gz'
,'w:bz2'
,'x:bz2'
,'w|bz2'
,tarfile.open()
accepts the keyword argument compresslevel (default9
) to specify the compression level of the file.For modes
'w:xz'
and'x:xz'
,tarfile.open()
accepts the keyword argument preset to specify the compression level of the file.For special purposes, there is a second format for mode:
'filemode|[compression]'
.tarfile.open()
will return aTarFile
object that processes its data as a stream of blocks. No random seeking will be done on the file. If given, fileobj may be any object that has aread()
orwrite()
method (depending on the mode) that works with bytes. bufsize specifies the blocksize and defaults to20 * 512
bytes. Use this variant in combination with e.g.sys.stdin.buffer
, a socket file object or a tape device. However, such aTarFile
object is limited in that it does not allow random access, see Exemplos. The currently possible modes:Modo
Ação
'r|*'
Abre um stream de blocos tar para leitura com compactação transparente.
'r|'
Abre um stream de blocos tar não compactados para leitura.
'r|gz'
Abre um stream compactado com gzip para leitura.
'r|bz2'
Abre um stream compactado com bzip2 para leitura.
'r|xz'
Abre um stream compactado com lzma para leitura.
'w|'
Abre um stream descompactado para gravação.
'w|gz'
Abre um stream compactado com gzip para gravação.
'w|bz2'
Abre um stream compactado com bzip2 para gravação.
'w|xz'
Abre um stream compactado com lzma para gravação.
Alterado na versão 3.5: O modo
'x'
(criação exclusiva) foi adicionado.Alterado na versão 3.6: The name parameter accepts a path-like object.
Alterado na versão 3.12: The compresslevel keyword argument also works for streams.
- class tarfile.TarFile
Class for reading and writing tar archives. Do not use this class directly: use
tarfile.open()
instead. See TarFile Objects.
- tarfile.is_tarfile(name)¶
Return
True
if name is a tar archive file, that thetarfile
module can read. name may be astr
, file, or file-like object.Alterado na versão 3.9: Suporte para arquivo e objetos arquivo ou similares.
The tarfile
module defines the following exceptions:
- exception tarfile.ReadError¶
Is raised when a tar archive is opened, that either cannot be handled by the
tarfile
module or is somehow invalid.
- exception tarfile.CompressionError¶
Is raised when a compression method is not supported or when the data cannot be decoded properly.
- exception tarfile.StreamError¶
Is raised for the limitations that are typical for stream-like
TarFile
objects.
- exception tarfile.ExtractError¶
Is raised for non-fatal errors when using
TarFile.extract()
, but only ifTarFile.errorlevel
== 2
.
- exception tarfile.HeaderError¶
Is raised by
TarInfo.frombuf()
if the buffer it gets is invalid.
- exception tarfile.AbsolutePathError¶
Raised to refuse extracting a member with an absolute path.
- exception tarfile.OutsideDestinationError¶
Raised to refuse extracting a member outside the destination directory.
- exception tarfile.SpecialFileError¶
Raised to refuse extracting a special file (e.g. a device or pipe).
- exception tarfile.AbsoluteLinkError¶
Raised to refuse extracting a symbolic link with an absolute path.
- exception tarfile.LinkOutsideDestinationError¶
Raised to refuse extracting a symbolic link pointing outside the destination directory.
The following constants are available at the module level:
- tarfile.ENCODING¶
The default character encoding:
'utf-8'
on Windows, the value returned bysys.getfilesystemencoding()
otherwise.
Each of the following constants defines a tar archive format that the
tarfile
module is able to create. See section Formatos tar suportados for
details.
- tarfile.USTAR_FORMAT¶
formato POSIX.1-1988 (ustar).
- tarfile.GNU_FORMAT¶
Formato tar GNU
- tarfile.PAX_FORMAT¶
formato POSIX.1-2001 (pax).
- tarfile.DEFAULT_FORMAT¶
The default format for creating archives. This is currently
PAX_FORMAT
.Alterado na versão 3.8: The default format for new archives was changed to
PAX_FORMAT
fromGNU_FORMAT
.
Ver também
- Módulo
zipfile
Documentation of the
zipfile
standard module.- Operações de arquivamento
Documentation of the higher-level archiving facilities provided by the standard
shutil
module.- GNU tar manual, Basic Tar Format
Documentation for tar archive files, including GNU tar extensions.
TarFile Objects¶
The TarFile
object provides an interface to a tar archive. A tar
archive is a sequence of blocks. An archive member (a stored file) is made up of
a header block followed by data blocks. It is possible to store a file in a tar
archive several times. Each archive member is represented by a TarInfo
object, see Objetos TarInfo for details.
A TarFile
object can be used as a context manager in a with
statement. It will automatically be closed when the block is completed. Please
note that in the event of an exception an archive opened for writing will not
be finalized; only the internally used file object will be closed. See the
Exemplos section for a use case.
Adicionado na versão 3.2: Added support for the context management protocol.
- class tarfile.TarFile(name=None, mode='r', fileobj=None, format=DEFAULT_FORMAT, tarinfo=TarInfo, dereference=False, ignore_zeros=False, encoding=ENCODING, errors='surrogateescape', pax_headers=None, debug=0, errorlevel=1)¶
All following arguments are optional and can be accessed as instance attributes as well.
name is the pathname of the archive. name may be a path-like object. It can be omitted if fileobj is given. In this case, the file object’s
name
attribute is used if it exists.mode is either
'r'
to read from an existing archive,'a'
to append data to an existing file,'w'
to create a new file overwriting an existing one, or'x'
to create a new file only if it does not already exist.If fileobj is given, it is used for reading or writing data. If it can be determined, mode is overridden by fileobj’s mode. fileobj will be used from position 0.
Nota
fileobj is not closed, when
TarFile
is closed.format controls the archive format for writing. It must be one of the constants
USTAR_FORMAT
,GNU_FORMAT
orPAX_FORMAT
that are defined at module level. When reading, format will be automatically detected, even if different formats are present in a single archive.The tarinfo argument can be used to replace the default
TarInfo
class with a different one.If dereference is
False
, add symbolic and hard links to the archive. If it isTrue
, add the content of the target files to the archive. This has no effect on systems that do not support symbolic links.If ignore_zeros is
False
, treat an empty block as the end of the archive. If it isTrue
, skip empty (and invalid) blocks and try to get as many members as possible. This is only useful for reading concatenated or damaged archives.debug can be set from
0
(no debug messages) up to3
(all debug messages). The messages are written tosys.stderr
.errorlevel controls how extraction errors are handled, see
the corresponding attribute
.The encoding and errors arguments define the character encoding to be used for reading or writing the archive and how conversion errors are going to be handled. The default settings will work for most users. See section Problemas de Unicode for in-depth information.
The pax_headers argument is an optional dictionary of strings which will be added as a pax global header if format is
PAX_FORMAT
.Alterado na versão 3.2: Use
'surrogateescape'
as the default for the errors argument.Alterado na versão 3.5: O modo
'x'
(criação exclusiva) foi adicionado.Alterado na versão 3.6: The name parameter accepts a path-like object.
- classmethod TarFile.open(...)¶
Alternative constructor. The
tarfile.open()
function is actually a shortcut to this classmethod.
- TarFile.getmember(name)¶
Return a
TarInfo
object for member name. If name can not be found in the archive,KeyError
is raised.Nota
If a member occurs more than once in the archive, its last occurrence is assumed to be the most up-to-date version.
- TarFile.getmembers()¶
Retorna os membros do arquivo como uma lista de objetos
TarInfo
. A lista tem a mesma ordem que os membros no arquivo.
- TarFile.getnames()¶
Return the members as a list of their names. It has the same order as the list returned by
getmembers()
.
- TarFile.list(verbose=True, *, members=None)¶
Print a table of contents to
sys.stdout
. If verbose isFalse
, only the names of the members are printed. If it isTrue
, output similar to that of ls -l is produced. If optional members is given, it must be a subset of the list returned bygetmembers()
.Alterado na versão 3.5: Added the members parameter.
- TarFile.next()¶
Return the next member of the archive as a
TarInfo
object, whenTarFile
is opened for reading. ReturnNone
if there is no more available.
- TarFile.extractall(path='.', members=None, *, numeric_owner=False, filter=None)¶
Extract all members from the archive to the current working directory or directory path. If optional members is given, it must be a subset of the list returned by
getmembers()
. Directory information like owner, modification time and permissions are set after all members have been extracted. This is done to work around two problems: A directory’s modification time is reset each time a file is created in it. And, if a directory’s permissions do not allow writing, extracting files to it will fail.If numeric_owner is
True
, the uid and gid numbers from the tarfile are used to set the owner/group for the extracted files. Otherwise, the named values from the tarfile are used.The filter argument specifies how
members
are modified or rejected before extraction. See Filtros de extração for details. It is recommended to set this explicitly depending on which tar features you need to support.Aviso
Never extract archives from untrusted sources without prior inspection. It is possible that files are created outside of path, e.g. members that have absolute filenames starting with
"/"
or filenames with two dots".."
.Set
filter='data'
to prevent the most dangerous security issues, and read the Filtros de extração section for details.Alterado na versão 3.5: Adicionado o parâmetro numeric_owner.
Alterado na versão 3.6: O parâmetro path aceita um objeto caminho ou similar.
Alterado na versão 3.12: Adicionado o parâmetro filter.
- TarFile.extract(member, path='', set_attrs=True, *, numeric_owner=False, filter=None)¶
Extract a member from the archive to the current working directory, using its full name. Its file information is extracted as accurately as possible. member may be a filename or a
TarInfo
object. You can specify a different directory using path. path may be a path-like object. File attributes (owner, mtime, mode) are set unless set_attrs is false.The numeric_owner and filter arguments are the same as for
extractall()
.Nota
The
extract()
method does not take care of several extraction issues. In most cases you should consider using theextractall()
method.Aviso
See the warning for
extractall()
.Set
filter='data'
to prevent the most dangerous security issues, and read the Filtros de extração section for details.Alterado na versão 3.2: Added the set_attrs parameter.
Alterado na versão 3.5: Adicionado o parâmetro numeric_owner.
Alterado na versão 3.6: O parâmetro path aceita um objeto caminho ou similar.
Alterado na versão 3.12: Adicionado o parâmetro filter.
- TarFile.extractfile(member)¶
Extract a member from the archive as a file object. member may be a filename or a
TarInfo
object. If member is a regular file or a link, anio.BufferedReader
object is returned. For all other existing members,None
is returned. If member does not appear in the archive,KeyError
is raised.Alterado na versão 3.3: Return an
io.BufferedReader
object.
- TarFile.errorlevel: int¶
If errorlevel is
0
, errors are ignored when usingTarFile.extract()
andTarFile.extractall()
. Nevertheless, they appear as error messages in the debug output when debug is greater than 0. If1
(the default), all fatal errors are raised asOSError
orFilterError
exceptions. If2
, all non-fatal errors are raised asTarError
exceptions as well.Some exceptions, e.g. ones caused by wrong argument types or data corruption, are always raised.
Custom extraction filters should raise
FilterError
for fatal errors andExtractError
for non-fatal ones.Note that when an exception is raised, the archive may be partially extracted. It is the user’s responsibility to clean up.
- TarFile.extraction_filter¶
Adicionado na versão 3.12.
The extraction filter used as a default for the filter argument of
extract()
andextractall()
.The attribute may be
None
or a callable. String names are not allowed for this attribute, unlike the filter argument toextract()
.If
extraction_filter
isNone
(the default), calling an extraction method without a filter argument will raise aDeprecationWarning
, and fall back to thefully_trusted
filter, whose dangerous behavior matches previous versions of Python.In Python 3.14+, leaving
extraction_filter=None
will cause extraction methods to use thedata
filter by default.The attribute may be set on instances or overridden in subclasses. It also is possible to set it on the
TarFile
class itself to set a global default, although, since it affects all uses of tarfile, it is best practice to only do so in top-level applications orsite configuration
. To set a global default this way, a filter function needs to be wrapped instaticmethod()
to prevent injection of aself
argument.
- TarFile.add(name, arcname=None, recursive=True, *, filter=None)¶
Add the file name to the archive. name may be any type of file (directory, fifo, symbolic link, etc.). If given, arcname specifies an alternative name for the file in the archive. Directories are added recursively by default. This can be avoided by setting recursive to
False
. Recursion adds entries in sorted order. If filter is given, it should be a function that takes aTarInfo
object argument and returns the changedTarInfo
object. If it instead returnsNone
theTarInfo
object will be excluded from the archive. See Exemplos for an example.Alterado na versão 3.2: Adicionado o parâmetro filter.
Alterado na versão 3.7: Recursion adds entries in sorted order.
- TarFile.addfile(tarinfo, fileobj=None)¶
Add the
TarInfo
object tarinfo to the archive. If fileobj is given, it should be a binary file, andtarinfo.size
bytes are read from it and added to the archive. You can createTarInfo
objects directly, or by usinggettarinfo()
.
- TarFile.gettarinfo(name=None, arcname=None, fileobj=None)¶
Create a
TarInfo
object from the result ofos.stat()
or equivalent on an existing file. The file is either named by name, or specified as a file object fileobj with a file descriptor. name may be a path-like object. If given, arcname specifies an alternative name for the file in the archive, otherwise, the name is taken from fileobj’sname
attribute, or the name argument. The name should be a text string.You can modify some of the
TarInfo
’s attributes before you add it usingaddfile()
. If the file object is not an ordinary file object positioned at the beginning of the file, attributes such assize
may need modifying. This is the case for objects such asGzipFile
. Thename
may also be modified, in which case arcname could be a dummy string.Alterado na versão 3.6: The name parameter accepts a path-like object.
Objetos TarInfo¶
A TarInfo
object represents one member in a TarFile
. Aside
from storing all required attributes of a file (like file type, size, time,
permissions, owner etc.), it provides some useful methods to determine its type.
It does not contain the file’s data itself.
TarInfo
objects are returned by TarFile
’s methods
getmember()
, getmembers()
and
gettarinfo()
.
Modifying the objects returned by getmember()
or
getmembers()
will affect all subsequent
operations on the archive.
For cases where this is unwanted, you can use copy.copy()
or
call the replace()
method to create a modified copy in one step.
Several attributes can be set to None
to indicate that a piece of metadata
is unused or unknown.
Different TarInfo
methods handle None
differently:
The
extract()
orextractall()
methods will ignore the corresponding metadata, leaving it set to a default.addfile()
falhará.list()
imprimirá uma string como um espaço reservado.
- classmethod TarInfo.frombuf(buf, encoding, errors)¶
Cria e retorna um objeto
TarInfo
a partir do buffer de string do parâmetro buf.Levanta
HeaderError
se o buffer for inválido.
- classmethod TarInfo.fromtarfile(tarfile)¶
Read the next member from the
TarFile
object tarfile and return it as aTarInfo
object.
- TarInfo.tobuf(format=DEFAULT_FORMAT, encoding=ENCODING, errors='surrogateescape')¶
Create a string buffer from a
TarInfo
object. For information on the arguments see the constructor of theTarFile
class.Alterado na versão 3.2: Use
'surrogateescape'
as the default for the errors argument.
A TarInfo
object has the following public data attributes:
- TarInfo.mtime: int | float¶
Time of last modification in seconds since the epoch, as in
os.stat_result.st_mtime
.Alterado na versão 3.12: Can be set to
None
forextract()
andextractall()
, causing extraction to skip applying this attribute.
- TarInfo.mode: int¶
Permission bits, as for
os.chmod()
.Alterado na versão 3.12: Can be set to
None
forextract()
andextractall()
, causing extraction to skip applying this attribute.
- TarInfo.type¶
File type. type is usually one of these constants:
REGTYPE
,AREGTYPE
,LNKTYPE
,SYMTYPE
,DIRTYPE
,FIFOTYPE
,CONTTYPE
,CHRTYPE
,BLKTYPE
,GNUTYPE_SPARSE
. To determine the type of aTarInfo
object more conveniently, use theis*()
methods below.
- TarInfo.linkname: str¶
Name of the target file name, which is only present in
TarInfo
objects of typeLNKTYPE
andSYMTYPE
.For symbolic links (
SYMTYPE
), the linkname is relative to the directory that contains the link. For hard links (LNKTYPE
), the linkname is relative to the root of the archive.
- TarInfo.uid: int¶
ID do usuário do usuário que originalmente armazenou este membro.
Alterado na versão 3.12: Can be set to
None
forextract()
andextractall()
, causing extraction to skip applying this attribute.
- TarInfo.gid: int¶
ID do grupo do usuário que originalmente armazenou este membro.
Alterado na versão 3.12: Can be set to
None
forextract()
andextractall()
, causing extraction to skip applying this attribute.
- TarInfo.uname: str¶
Nome do usuário.
Alterado na versão 3.12: Can be set to
None
forextract()
andextractall()
, causing extraction to skip applying this attribute.
- TarInfo.gname: str¶
Nome do grupo.
Alterado na versão 3.12: Can be set to
None
forextract()
andextractall()
, causing extraction to skip applying this attribute.
- TarInfo.sparse¶
Sparse member information.
- TarInfo.pax_headers: dict¶
A dictionary containing key-value pairs of an associated pax extended header.
- TarInfo.replace(name=..., mtime=..., mode=..., linkname=..., uid=..., gid=..., uname=..., gname=..., deep=True)¶
Adicionado na versão 3.12.
Return a new copy of the
TarInfo
object with the given attributes changed. For example, to return aTarInfo
with the group name set to'staff'
, use:new_tarinfo = old_tarinfo.replace(gname='staff')
By default, a deep copy is made. If deep is false, the copy is shallow, i.e.
pax_headers
and any custom attributes are shared with the originalTarInfo
object.
A TarInfo
object also provides some convenient query methods:
Filtros de extração¶
Adicionado na versão 3.12.
The tar format is designed to capture all details of a UNIX-like filesystem,
which makes it very powerful.
Unfortunately, the features make it easy to create tar files that have
unintended – and possibly malicious – effects when extracted.
For example, extracting a tar file can overwrite arbitrary files in various
ways (e.g. by using absolute paths, ..
path components, or symlinks that
affect later members).
In most cases, the full functionality is not needed. Therefore, tarfile supports extraction filters: a mechanism to limit functionality, and thus mitigate some of the security issues.
Ver também
- PEP 706
Contém a motivação e lógica escolhida para este design.
The filter argument to TarFile.extract()
or extractall()
can be:
the string
'fully_trusted'
: Honor all metadata as specified in the archive. Should be used if the user trusts the archive completely, or implements their own complex verification.the string
'tar'
: Honor most tar-specific features (i.e. features of UNIX-like filesystems), but block features that are very likely to be surprising or malicious. Seetar_filter()
for details.the string
'data'
: Ignore or block most features specific to UNIX-like filesystems. Intended for extracting cross-platform data archives. Seedata_filter()
for details.None
(default): UseTarFile.extraction_filter
.If that is also
None
(the default), raise aDeprecationWarning
, and fall back to the'fully_trusted'
filter, whose dangerous behavior matches previous versions of Python.In Python 3.14, the
'data'
filter will become the default instead. It’s possible to switch earlier; seeTarFile.extraction_filter
.A callable which will be called for each extracted member with a TarInfo describing the member and the destination path to where the archive is extracted (i.e. the same path is used for all members):
filter(member: TarInfo, path: str, /) -> TarInfo | None
The callable is called just before each member is extracted, so it can take the current state of the disk into account. It can:
return a
TarInfo
object which will be used instead of the metadata in the archive, orreturn
None
, in which case the member will be skipped, orraise an exception to abort the operation or skip the member, depending on
errorlevel
. Note that when extraction is aborted,extractall()
may leave the archive partially extracted. It does not attempt to clean up.
Default named filters¶
The pre-defined, named filters are available as functions, so they can be reused in custom filters:
- tarfile.fully_trusted_filter(member, path)¶
Retorna member inalterado.
This implements the
'fully_trusted'
filter.
- tarfile.tar_filter(member, path)¶
Implements the
'tar'
filter.Strip leading slashes (
/
andos.sep
) from filenames.Refuse to extract files with absolute paths (in case the name is absolute even after stripping slashes, e.g.
C:/foo
on Windows). This raisesAbsolutePathError
.Refuse to extract files whose absolute path (after following symlinks) would end up outside the destination. This raises
OutsideDestinationError
.Clear high mode bits (setuid, setgid, sticky) and group/other write bits (
S_IWGRP
|S_IWOTH
).
Return the modified
TarInfo
member.
- tarfile.data_filter(member, path)¶
Implements the
'data'
filter. In addition to whattar_filter
does:Refuse to extract links (hard or soft) that link to absolute paths, or ones that link outside the destination.
This raises
AbsoluteLinkError
orLinkOutsideDestinationError
.Note that such files are refused even on platforms that do not support symbolic links.
Refuse to extract device files (including pipes). This raises
SpecialFileError
.Para arquivos comuns, incluindo links físicos:
For other files (directories), set
mode
toNone
, so that extraction methods skip applying permission bits.Set user and group info (
uid
,gid
,uname
,gname
) toNone
, so that extraction methods skip setting it.
Return the modified
TarInfo
member.
Filter errors¶
When a filter refuses to extract a file, it will raise an appropriate exception,
a subclass of FilterError
.
This will abort the extraction if TarFile.errorlevel
is 1 or more.
With errorlevel=0
the error will be logged and the member will be skipped,
but extraction will continue.
Dicas para verificação adicional¶
Even with filter='data'
, tarfile is not suited for extracting untrusted
files without prior inspection.
Among other issues, the pre-defined filters do not prevent denial-of-service
attacks. Users should do additional checks.
Aqui está uma lista incompleta de itens a serem considerados:
Extract to a
new temporary directory
to prevent e.g. exploiting pre-existing links, and to make it easier to clean up after a failed extraction.When working with untrusted data, use external (e.g. OS-level) limits on disk, memory and CPU usage.
Check filenames against an allow-list of characters (to filter out control characters, confusables, foreign path separators, etc.).
Check that filenames have expected extensions (discouraging files that execute when you “click on them”, or extension-less files like Windows special device names).
Limit the number of extracted files, total size of extracted data, filename length (including symlink length), and size of individual files.
Check for files that would be shadowed on case-insensitive filesystems.
Observe também que:
Tar files may contain multiple versions of the same file. Later ones are expected to overwrite any earlier ones. This feature is crucial to allow updating tape archives, but can be abused maliciously.
tarfile does not protect against issues with “live” data, e.g. an attacker tinkering with the destination (or source) directory while extraction (or archiving) is in progress.
Suporte a versões mais antigas do Python¶
Extraction filters were added to Python 3.12, but may be backported to older
versions as security updates.
To check whether the feature is available, use e.g.
hasattr(tarfile, 'data_filter')
rather than checking the Python version.
The following examples show how to support Python versions with and without
the feature.
Note that setting extraction_filter
will affect any subsequent operations.
Fully trusted archive:
my_tarfile.extraction_filter = (lambda member, path: member) my_tarfile.extractall()
Use the
'data'
filter if available, but revert to Python 3.11 behavior ('fully_trusted'
) if this feature is not available:my_tarfile.extraction_filter = getattr(tarfile, 'data_filter', (lambda member, path: member)) my_tarfile.extractall()
Use o filtro
'data'
; fail se ele não estiver disponível:my_tarfile.extractall(filter=tarfile.data_filter)
ou:
my_tarfile.extraction_filter = tarfile.data_filter my_tarfile.extractall()
Use o filtro
'data'
; warn se ele não estiver disponível:if hasattr(tarfile, 'data_filter'): my_tarfile.extractall(filter='data') else: # remove this when no longer needed warn_the_user('Extracting may be unsafe; consider updating Python') my_tarfile.extractall()
Stateful extraction filter example¶
While tarfile’s extraction methods take a simple filter callable, custom filters may be more complex objects with an internal state. It may be useful to write these as context managers, to be used like this:
with StatefulFilter() as filter_func:
tar.extractall(path, filter=filter_func)
Such a filter can be written as, for example:
class StatefulFilter:
def __init__(self):
self.file_count = 0
def __enter__(self):
return self
def __call__(self, member, path):
self.file_count += 1
return member
def __exit__(self, *exc_info):
print(f'{self.file_count} files extracted')
Interface de Linha de Comando¶
Adicionado na versão 3.4.
The tarfile
module provides a simple command-line interface to interact
with tar archives.
If you want to create a new tar archive, specify its name after the -c
option and then list the filename(s) that should be included:
$ python -m tarfile -c monty.tar spam.txt eggs.txt
Passar um diretório também é aceitável:
$ python -m tarfile -c monty.tar life-of-brian_1979/
If you want to extract a tar archive into the current directory, use
the -e
option:
$ python -m tarfile -e monty.tar
You can also extract a tar archive into a different directory by passing the directory’s name:
$ python -m tarfile -e monty.tar other-dir/
For a list of the files in a tar archive, use the -l
option:
$ python -m tarfile -l monty.tar
Opções de linha de comando¶
- -c <tarfile> <source1> ... <sourceN>¶
- --create <tarfile> <source1> ... <sourceN>¶
Cria um arquivo tar a partir dos arquivos de origem.
- -e <tarfile> [<output_dir>]¶
- --extract <tarfile> [<output_dir>]¶
Extract tarfile into the current directory if output_dir is not specified.
- -v, --verbose¶
Saída detalhada.
- --filter <filtername>¶
Specifies the filter for
--extract
. See Filtros de extração for details. Only string names are accepted (that is,fully_trusted
,tar
, anddata
).
Exemplos¶
How to extract an entire tar archive to the current working directory:
import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz")
tar.extractall(filter='data')
tar.close()
How to extract a subset of a tar archive with TarFile.extractall()
using
a generator function instead of a list:
import os
import tarfile
def py_files(members):
for tarinfo in members:
if os.path.splitext(tarinfo.name)[1] == ".py":
yield tarinfo
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz")
tar.extractall(members=py_files(tar))
tar.close()
How to create an uncompressed tar archive from a list of filenames:
import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar", "w")
for name in ["foo", "bar", "quux"]:
tar.add(name)
tar.close()
The same example using the with
statement:
import tarfile
with tarfile.open("sample.tar", "w") as tar:
for name in ["foo", "bar", "quux"]:
tar.add(name)
How to read a gzip compressed tar archive and display some member information:
import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "r:gz")
for tarinfo in tar:
print(tarinfo.name, "is", tarinfo.size, "bytes in size and is ", end="")
if tarinfo.isreg():
print("a regular file.")
elif tarinfo.isdir():
print("a directory.")
else:
print("something else.")
tar.close()
How to create an archive and reset the user information using the filter
parameter in TarFile.add()
:
import tarfile
def reset(tarinfo):
tarinfo.uid = tarinfo.gid = 0
tarinfo.uname = tarinfo.gname = "root"
return tarinfo
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz", "w:gz")
tar.add("foo", filter=reset)
tar.close()
Formatos tar suportados¶
There are three tar formats that can be created with the tarfile
module:
The POSIX.1-1988 ustar format (
USTAR_FORMAT
). It supports filenames up to a length of at best 256 characters and linknames up to 100 characters. The maximum file size is 8 GiB. This is an old and limited but widely supported format.The GNU tar format (
GNU_FORMAT
). It supports long filenames and linknames, files bigger than 8 GiB and sparse files. It is the de facto standard on GNU/Linux systems.tarfile
fully supports the GNU tar extensions for long names, sparse file support is read-only.The POSIX.1-2001 pax format (
PAX_FORMAT
). It is the most flexible format with virtually no limits. It supports long filenames and linknames, large files and stores pathnames in a portable way. Modern tar implementations, including GNU tar, bsdtar/libarchive and star, fully support extended pax features; some old or unmaintained libraries may not, but should treat pax archives as if they were in the universally supported ustar format. It is the current default format for new archives.It extends the existing ustar format with extra headers for information that cannot be stored otherwise. There are two flavours of pax headers: Extended headers only affect the subsequent file header, global headers are valid for the complete archive and affect all following files. All the data in a pax header is encoded in UTF-8 for portability reasons.
There are some more variants of the tar format which can be read, but not created:
The ancient V7 format. This is the first tar format from Unix Seventh Edition, storing only regular files and directories. Names must not be longer than 100 characters, there is no user/group name information. Some archives have miscalculated header checksums in case of fields with non-ASCII characters.
The SunOS tar extended format. This format is a variant of the POSIX.1-2001 pax format, but is not compatible.
Problemas de Unicode¶
The tar format was originally conceived to make backups on tape drives with the main focus on preserving file system information. Nowadays tar archives are commonly used for file distribution and exchanging archives over networks. One problem of the original format (which is the basis of all other formats) is that there is no concept of supporting different character encodings. For example, an ordinary tar archive created on a UTF-8 system cannot be read correctly on a Latin-1 system if it contains non-ASCII characters. Textual metadata (like filenames, linknames, user/group names) will appear damaged. Unfortunately, there is no way to autodetect the encoding of an archive. The pax format was designed to solve this problem. It stores non-ASCII metadata using the universal character encoding UTF-8.
The details of character conversion in tarfile
are controlled by the
encoding and errors keyword arguments of the TarFile
class.
encoding defines the character encoding to use for the metadata in the
archive. The default value is sys.getfilesystemencoding()
or 'ascii'
as a fallback. Depending on whether the archive is read or written, the
metadata must be either decoded or encoded. If encoding is not set
appropriately, this conversion may fail.
The errors argument defines how characters are treated that cannot be
converted. Possible values are listed in section Error Handlers.
The default scheme is 'surrogateescape'
which Python also uses for its
file system calls, see Nomes de arquivos, argumentos de linha de comando e variáveis de ambiente.
For PAX_FORMAT
archives (the default), encoding is generally not needed
because all the metadata is stored using UTF-8. encoding is only used in
the rare cases when binary pax headers are decoded or when strings with
surrogate characters are stored.