Late, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the answers.
pip install patool
import patoolib
patoolib.extract_archive("foo_bar.rar", outdir="path here")
Works on Windows and linux without any other libraries needed.
Pregunta
How can I extract a .zip
or .rar
file using Python?
Solución
Late, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the answers.
pip install patool
import patoolib
patoolib.extract_archive("foo_bar.rar", outdir="path here")
Works on Windows and linux without any other libraries needed.
Otros consejos
Try the pyunpack
package:
from pyunpack import Archive
Archive('a.zip').extractall('/path/to')
After some deep diving, here are my findings:
patool
is application that provides uniform command line as wrapper to other external compression applications. Natively, it can only deal with TAR, ZIP, BZIP2 and GZIP without needing external support.pyunpack
is Python library that can only deal with zip natively but provides interface to patool
.With this in mind, following things worked for me:
pip install patool pyunpack
Then to use it,
import pyunpack
pyunpack.Archive(archive_file).extractall(extract_dir)
This method only requires having 7zip installed.
Works flawlessly on every system 7zip does.
No python packages needed at all.
import subprocess
subprocess.run('7z x -oOutdir archive.rar')
The subprocess module is comes with python.