fastar 0.2.0

High-level bindings for the Rust tar crate

Fastar

High-level bindings for the Rust tar crate.

Installation

pip install fastar

Usage

import fastar
from pathlib import Path


some_file = Path('file.txt')
some_file.write_text('Hello, Fastar!')


with fastar.open('archive.tar', 'w') as archive:
    archive.add(some_file)


with fastar.open('archive.tar', 'r') as archive:
    archive.extract(Path("extracted/"))


extracted_file = Path('extracted/file.txt')
print(extracted_file.read_text())  # Hello, Fastar!

Development

1. Install dependencies into a virtual env: uv sync
2. Make changes to the code and tests
3. Build the package: uv run maturin develop
4. Run the tests: uv run pytest