How can unrar a file with python

Question

I can to unzip a file if file is a .zip and unrar file if my file type is .rar. How i can do this work with python 2.7?

Answer 1

Try the pyunpack package:

from pyunpack import Archive
Archive('a.zip').extractall('/path/to')

Answer 2

Late, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the answers.

pip install patool
import patoolib
patoolib.extract_archive("foo_bar.rar", outdir="path here")

Works on Windows and linux without any other libraries needed.

Answer 3

A good package for it is rarfile :

Infos and docs here :

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rarfile/

https://rarfile.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html

Answer 4

• How to unzip a file with Python 2.4?
• https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rarfile/