pyunpack

pyunpack is a Python module to unpack archive files.

Home: https://github.com/ponty/pyunpack
Documentation: http://ponty.github.com/pyunpack

Basic usage

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

or on console:

python -m pyunpack.cli a.zip .

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

Installation

General

- install setuptools

- install unpackers for patool (optional)

- install patool (optional, easy_install does not work)

- install the program:

 # as root
 easy_install pyunpack

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install pyunpack
#optional
sudo easy_install http://sourceforge.net/projects/patool/files/0.13/patool-0.13.tar.gz/download
sudo apt-get install unzip unrar p7zip-full

Uninstall

first install pip:

# as root
pip uninstall pyunpack

Features:

• backends:
• patool: optional, can handle a lot of formats using different programs
• zipfile: included in Python
• command line interface

Requirements:

• Python

Limitations:

• Python 3 is not supported
• Tested only on Linux