Question

I want to extract a 7-Zip archive in a Python script. It works fine except that it spits out the extraction details (which is huge in my case).

Is there a way to avoid this verbose information while extracting? I did not find any “silent” command line option to 7z.exe.

My command is

7z.exe -o some_dir x some_archive.7z

Answer 1

One possibility would be to spawn the child process with popen, so its output will come back to the parent to be processed/displayed (if desired) or else completely ignored (create your popen object with stdout=PIPE and stderr=PIPE to be able to retrieve the output from the child).