http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/tarfile-old/2009-06-04T15:48:17-07:00ActiveState Code Recipes2009-06-04T15:48:17-07:00Sridhar Ratnakumarhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4169511/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576797-tarfileextractall-with-read-access/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 576797 by <a href="/recipes/users/4169511/">Sridhar Ratnakumar</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/tarfile/">tarfile</a>). </p> <p>Some tarballs have u-x set on directories .. this makes the program fail due to permissions. See <a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue6196" rel="nofollow">http://bugs.python.org/issue6196</a></p>