Question

I made a small script as below to read group of files and tar them, its all working fine accept that the compressed file contain full path of the files when uncompressed. Is there a way to do it without the directory structure?

compressor = tarfile.open(PATH_TO_ARCHIVE + re.sub('[\s.:"-]+', '', 
    str(datetime.datetime.now())) + '.tar.gz', 'w:gz')

for file in os.listdir(os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, PATH_CSS_DB_OUT)):
    compressor.add(os.path.join(settings.MEDIA_ROOT, PATH_CSS_DB_OUT) + file)

compressor.close()

Answer 1

Take a look at the TarFile.add signature:

… If given, arcname specifies an alternative name for the file in the archive.