I’m looking for a package that will automatically detect the type of and extract an archive (zip, tar.gz, etc). In Perl, this is easy – in Python, I can’t find any simple package/class to do it…
Share
Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I’m looking for a package that will automatically detect the type of and extract an archive (zip, tar.gz, etc). In Perl, this is easy – in Python, I can’t find any simple package/class to do it…
Riding off of Mark Byers’ response, perhaps you can tie all of these together with
mimetypes(also from the standard library). You could identify the type of file, and process it accordingly. The world needs a Python version ofArchive::Extract, and we want you to write it!