using python3 (in a venv)
I am looking for a way to save some files, each strictly defined as its own full pathname in a variable
I would do something looking like this:
import datetime import os import tarfile import time outputfilename = "backup.configfiles" # as far as it has datetime names can't be similar configfilelist = [ "/app1/DATA2/tartes/titi", "/app2/DATA2/tartes/toto", "/app3/DATA8/tartes/truc" ] # and so on for all of the filenames (here is only example of list) def definetarfilename(): # adapt date & time to file name t = time.localtime() timestamp = str(time.strftime('%Y%m%d-%H%M',t)) global filedatee filedatee=outputfilename+"."+timestamp+".tar.gz" def writefilestotargz(): # use compression with gz with tarfile.open(filedatee, "w|gz") as tar: for f in [configfilelist]: tar.add(f) definetarfilename() # generate filename writefilestotargz() # write tar.gz file exit()
but I get errors about :
AttributeError: "list" object has no attribute "statswith"
I’m still new to python, so can you help define why and how I can fix that (method, syntax ?)
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Answer
There is a minor issue in writefilestotargz
function:
def writefilestotargz(): # use compression with gz with tarfile.open(filedatee, "w|gz") as tar: for f in configfilelist: tar.add(f)