Pyarchive

Pyarchive is a python bindings for libarchive.

Usage

>>> import archive
>>> a = archive.Archive('test.tgz')
>>> for i in a:
...   print(a.filename)
>>> print(a.read())  # read last file

Dependencies

• python 3.2 (sorry, need FS encoding conversion functions)
• libarchive

Performance

According to my tests libarchive 5-15 times faster that tarfile