RAR archive reader for Python
Project description
This is Python module for RAR archive reading. The interface is made as zipfile like as possible. Licensed under ISC license.
Features:
Supports both RAR2 and RAR3 archives (WinRAR 2.x .. WinRAR 4.x).
Supports multi volume archives.
Supports Unicode filenames.
Supports password-protected archives.
Supports archive and file comments.
Archive parsing and non-compressed files are handled in pure Python code.
Compressed files are extracted by executing external tool: either unrar from RARLAB or bsdtar from libarchive.
Works with both Python 2.7 and 3.x.
Notes:
Does not support the RAR5 format introduced in WinRAR 5.0.
bsdtar does not support all RAR3 features.
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