pyunpack 0.0.1

unpack archive files

unpack archive files

Links:

• home: https://github.com/ponty/pyunpack

• documentation: http://ponty.github.com/pyunpack

Features:

• unpack archive files without password

• very simple interface

• command line interface and library

• backends:

  • zipfile: included in Python

  • patool: It relies on helper applications to handle those archive formats (for example bzip2 for BZIP2 archives). Supported formats: 7z (.7z), ACE (.ace), ALZIP (.alz), AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), BZIP2 (.bz2), CAB (.cab), compress (.Z), CPIO (.cpio), DEB (.deb), DMS (.dms), GZIP (.gz), LRZIP (.lrz), LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP (.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RPM (.rpm), RAR (.rar), RZIP (.rz), TAR (.tar), XZ (.xz), ZIP (.zip, .jar) and ZOO (.zoo)

Known problems:

• Python 3 is not supported

• tested only on linux

Background

Patool is very good at unpacking a lot of archive formats, but it can not be used as a python library. pyunpack is a workaround: patool is called using its command line interface. If Patool is not installed then only zip format can be unpacked using the internal python zipfile library. Patool should be converted into a library in the future.

Basic usage

>>> from pyunpack import Archive
>>> Archive('a.zip').extractall('/path/to')

or on console:

python -m pyunpack.cli a.zip /path/to

Similar projects

• zipfile: zip only, included in python

• patool: many formats, command line only

• python-archive: zip and tar only

• rarfile: rar only

• pyUnRAR2: rar only

• pylzma: LZMA only

• easy-extract: many formats, no simple interface for unpacking

• python-archive: zip and tar only

• pyarchive

• nested.tar.archives.extractor: tar only

Installation

General

• install setuptools

• install unpackers for patool (optional)

• patool is installed by setup script

• install the program:

  # as root
  easy_install pyunpack

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install pyunpack
#optional
sudo apt-get install unzip unrar p7zip-full

Uninstall

first install pip:

# as root
pip uninstall pyunpack