Extract tgz files in python

import os, sys, tarfile

def extract(tar_url, extract_path='.'):
    print tar_url
    tar = tarfile.open(tar_url, 'r')
    for item in tar:
        tar.extract(item, extract_path)
        if item.name.find(".tgz") != -1 or item.name.find(".tar") != -1:
            extract(item.name, "./" + item.name[:item.name.rfind('/')])
try:

    extract(sys.argv[1] + '.tgz')
    print 'Done.'
except:
    name = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
    print name[:name.rfind('.')], '<filename>'

Source: stackoverflow.com

Similar codes

0 vote131 views1 answer
Docker-compose.yml for flask celery rabbitmq
Python
0 vote96 views1 answer
Basic asyncio syntax
Python
0 vote90 views1 answer
Python run scp command
Python
1 vote94 views1 answer
Get list of objects in group godot
Python
0 vote117 views1 answer
How to subset a dataframe in python based on multiple categorical values
Python
0 vote106 views1 answer
Python returning rows and columns from a matrix string
Python
0 vote129 views1 answer
Autofield in django
Python Django
1 vote108 views2 answers
Python example
Python
0 vote96 views1 answer
Install formio data python library
Python
1 vote97 views2 answers
Python sum of natural numbers recursion
Python