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Asked: 2026-06-11T22:24:10+00:00

I have a freshly compiled python 3.2.3 on CentOS 6, and I’m having trouble

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I have a freshly compiled python 3.2.3 on CentOS 6, and I’m having trouble getting the tarfile module working with the gzipped file.

Python 3.2.3 (default, Sep 17 2012, 16:49:57) 
[GCC 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)] on linux2
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>>> import tarfile
>>> t = tarfile.open("test.tar.gz")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/opt/python3/lib/python3.2/tarfile.py", line 1746, in open
    raise ReadError("file could not be opened successfully")
tarfile.ReadError: file could not be opened successfully

The tar file extracts normally using the normal tar utility. Is there some dependency I’m missing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out I needed to compile python3 with zlib-devel installed on the box. There’s no extra configure options to include, the configure script will automatically include zlib when it sees the dev libraries.

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