0xIbra / pydecompress

A Python package that eases the process of extracting contents from different types of archives.

PyDecompress

Lightweight package that allows you to decompress archive files.

Supported formats

• .zip
• .tar
• .tar.gz
• .tar.xz
• .tar.bz2
• .tar.xz
• .tar.Z - Requires the Linux uncompress package.

Installation

via pip:

pip install pydecompress

Usage example

from pydecompress.extractor import Extractor

res = Extractor.extract('path/to/archive.tar.gz', '/destination/folder')
print(res) # Output: PosixPath('/destination/folder')