pyunpack: A Python repository from ibarbech

unpack archive files

Links:

home: https://github.com/ponty/pyunpack
documentation: http://pyunpack.readthedocs.org
PYPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyunpack

Features:

unpack archive files without password
very simple interface
command line interface and library
supported python versions: 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6
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)

Background

patool is called by pyunpack using its command line interface. If Patool is not installed then only zip format can be unpacked using the internal python zipfile library.

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 and library, GPL

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 pip

install unpackers for patool (optional)

install patool (optional)
install the program:
# as root
pip install pyunpack

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install pyunpack
#optional
sudo pip install patool
sudo pip install entrypoint2
sudo apt-get install unzip unrar p7zip-full

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall pyunpack

command line help

#-- sh('python -m pyunpack.cli --help')--#
usage: cli.py [-h] [-b BACKEND] [-a] [--debug] filename directory

positional arguments:
  filename              path to archive file
  directory             directory to extract to

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -b BACKEND, --backend BACKEND
                        auto, patool or zipfile
  -a, --auto-create-dir
                        auto create directory
  --debug               set logging level to DEBUG
#-#

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