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, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5

• 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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