unpack archive files

Links:

Features:

unpack archive files without password
very simple interface
command line interface and library
supported python versions: 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
back-ends:
- 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

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pyarchive

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Installation

General

install pip

install unpackers for patool (optional)

patool is installed by setup script
install the program:
# as root
pip install pyunpack

Ubuntu

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

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall pyunpack

License
- OSI Approved :: BSD License
Natural Language
- English
Operating System
- OS Independent
Programming Language
- Python

Metadata

License
- OSI Approved :: BSD License
Natural Language
- English
Operating System
- OS Independent
Programming Language
- Python

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