Python tarfile progress output?

Question

I\'m using the following code to extract a tar file:

import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open(\"sample.tar.gz\")
tar.extractall()
tar.close()

However,

Answer 1

To see which file is currently being extracted, the following worked for me:

import tarfile

print "Extracting the contents of sample.tar.gz:"
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz")

for member_info in tar.getmembers():
    print "- extracting: " + member_info.name
    tar.extract(member_info)

tar.close()