Question

I am trying to extract a zipped folder but instead of directly using .extractall(), I want to extract the file into stream so that I can handle the stream myself. Is it possible to do it using tarfile? Or is there any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can obtain each file from a tar file as a python file object using the .extractfile() method. Loop over the tarfile.TarFile() instance to list all entries:

import tarfile

with tarfile.open(path) as tf:
    for entry in tf:  # list each entry one by one
        fileobj = tf.extractfile(entry)
        # fileobj is now an open file object. Use `.read()` to get the data.
        # alternatively, loop over `fileobj` to read it line by line.