Read a tar file from s3 and uncompress it

Question

Hi,

I want to read a tar file from s3, uncompress it and load it to another s3 bucket using Glue job. But I am facing "fileobj must implement read".

obj=s3.getObject(bucketname,key)
objbuffer = io.BytesIO(obj["Body"].read())
tarf = tarfile.open(fileobj=objbuffer)
files = tarf.getnames()
for file in files:
with open(file, 'rb') as f:
s3.upload_fileobj(f, tgt_bucket, filepath, Config=config)

Note : I am using upload_fileobj to handle mutlipart upload and Config has TransferConfig details

Answer

Hi,

Are you 100% sure that the tarf.getnames() returns "real" files ? It can also return symlinks, directories, etcetc.

Look at https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile.TarInfo

```
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 a TarInfo object more conveniently, use the is*() methods below.
```

So, you may want to check the type of the tar member before uploading it.

Best,

Didier

Read a tar file from s3 and uncompress it

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