adding tar mode

Author: chrisgorgo

README.md

@@ -314,8 +314,8 @@ optional arguments:
   -u, --public          Create publicly (default is private)
   -q, --quiet           Suppress printing information about the upload/download progress
   -t, --keep-tabular    Do not convert tabular files to CSV (default is to convert)
-  -r {skip,zip}, --dir-mode {skip,zip}
-                        What to do with directories: "skip" - ignore; "zip" - compress and upload
+  -r {skip,zip,tar}, --dir-mode {skip,zip,tar}
+                        What to do with directories: "skip" - ignore; "zip" - compressed upload; "tar" - uncompressed upload
 ```
 
 Example:
@@ -338,8 +338,8 @@ optional arguments:
                         Folder for upload, containing data files and a special dataset-metadata.json file (https://github.com/Kaggle/kaggle-api/wiki/Dataset-Metadata). Defaults to current working directory
   -q, --quiet           Suppress printing information about the upload/download progress
   -t, --keep-tabular    Do not convert tabular files to CSV (default is to convert)
-  -r {skip,zip}, --dir-mode {skip,zip}
-                        What to do with directories: "skip" - ignore; "zip" - compress and upload
+  -r {skip,zip,tar}, --dir-mode {skip,zip,tar}
+                        What to do with directories: "skip" - ignore; "zip" - compressed upload; "tar" - uncompressed upload
   -d, --delete-old-versions
                         Delete old versions of this dataset
 ```

kaggle/api/kaggle_api_extended.py

@@ -2242,12 +2242,12 @@ def upload_files(self, request, resources, folder, quiet=False, dir_mode='skip')
                 if exitcode:
                     return
             elif os.path.isdir(full_path):
-                if dir_mode == 'zip':
+                if dir_mode in ['zip', 'tar']:
                     temp_dir = tempfile.mkdtemp()
                     try:
                         _, dir_name = os.path.split(full_path)
-                        archive_path = shutil.make_archive(os.path.join(temp_dir, dir_name), "zip",
-                                                           full_path)
+                        archive_path = shutil.make_archive(os.path.join(temp_dir, dir_name),
+                                                           dir_mode, full_path)
                         _, archive_name = os.path.split(archive_path)
                         exitcode = self._upload_file(archive_name, archive_path, quiet, request,
                                                      resources)
@@ -2256,8 +2256,7 @@ def upload_files(self, request, resources, folder, quiet=False, dir_mode='skip')
                     if exitcode:
                         return
                 elif not quiet:
-                    print("Skipping folder: " + file_name + "; use '--dir-mode zip' to upload "
-                                                            "folders")
+                    print("Skipping folder: " + file_name + "; use '--dir-mode' to upload folders")
             else:
                 if not quiet:
                     print('Skipping: ' + file_name)

kaggle/cli.py

@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ def parse_datasets(subparsers):
         '-r',
         '--dir-mode',
         dest='dir_mode',
-        choices=['skip', 'zip'],
+        choices=['skip', 'zip', 'tar'],
         default='skip',
         help=Help.param_dir_mode)
     parser_datasets_create._action_groups.append(
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ def parse_datasets(subparsers):
         '-r',
         '--dir-mode',
         dest='dir_mode',
-        choices=['skip', 'zip'],
+        choices=['skip', 'zip', 'tar'],
         default='skip',
         help=Help.param_dir_mode)
     parser_datasets_version_optional.add_argument(
@@ -949,7 +949,8 @@ class Help(object):
     param_keep_tabular = (
         'Do not convert tabular files to CSV (default is to convert)')
     param_dir_mode = (
-        'What to do with directories: "skip" - ignore; "zip" - compress and upload')
+        'What to do with directories: "skip" - ignore; "zip" - compressed upload; "tar" - '
+        'uncompressed upload')
     param_delete_old_version = 'Delete old versions of this dataset'
     param_force = (
         'Skip check whether local version of file is up to date, force'