unpack archive files

Links:

• home: https://github.com/ponty/pyunpack
• documentation: http://ponty.github.com/pyunpack

Features:

• unpack archive files without password
• very simple interface
• command line interface and library
• supported python versions: 2.6, 2.7
• tested only on linux

• 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.

Basic 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 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
• 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 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/patool/0.17/patool-0.17.tar.gz
sudo pip install entrypoint2 # for cli.py
sudo apt-get install unzip unrar p7zip-full

Uninstall

# as root
pip uninstall pyunpack