Python package to read .7z archives?

Giampaolo Rodolà g.rodola at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 07:32:23 EDT 2010


2010/8/4 Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth at usit.uio.no>:
> Is there an equivalent of zipfile.py for .7z archives?
> I have one which extracts an archive member by running 7z e -so,
> but that's a *slow* way to read one file at a time.
>
> Google found me some python interfaces to lzma, but apparently they
> only handle single compressed files, not .7z archives.
>
> (Actually another archive format would be fine if it is competitive.
> I'm just looking to compress my .zips better.  I need a Python module
> to extract members reasonably fast, but slow compression would be OK.)
>
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http://bugs.python.org/issue5689


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