A libarchive wrapper for Python.
Project description
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Introduction
A complete wrapper for the libarchive library generated using SWIG. Also included in the package are compatibility layers for the Python zipfile and tarfile modules.
Libarchive supports the following:
- Reads a variety of formats, including tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, lha, ar, cab, mtree, rar, and ISO images.
- Writes tar, pax, cpio, zip, xar, ar, ISO, mtree, and shar archives.
- Automatically handles archives compressed with gzip, bzip2, lzip, xz, lzma, or compress.
For information on installing libarchive and python-libarchive, see the Building.
For information on using python-libarchive, see Examples
