[Tutor] *.rar decompress

[Isr Gish]

Thanks Jimmy and Danny, I'll take a look at this.

All the best,
Isr

-----Original Message-----
   >From: "Jimmy Retzlaff"<jimmy at retzlaff.com>
   >Sent: 9/22/04 6:57:30 AM
   >To: "Isr Gish"<isrgish at fastem.com>
   >Cc: "Tutor"<tutor at python.org>, "Danny Yoo"<dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
   >Subject: RE: [Tutor] *.rar decompress
     >Danny Yoo wrote:
   >> On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Isr Gish wrote:
   >> 
   >> > I'm looking to decompress *.rar files.
   >> > Does anyone know of a way to do that in python.
   >> 
   >> I googled around, and found a third-party library for dealing with RAR
   >> files:
   >> 
   >>     http://www.averdevelopment.com/python/UnRAR.html
   >> 
   >> Oh, it's Jimmy's module!  That's cool!  He's a regular at the Bay Area
   >> Python Interest Group (http://baypiggies.net).  Let me just CC him so
   >he
   >> knows that I'm plugging his module.  *grin*
   >
   >Yep, that's me! I'm not on the Tutor list so it's nice that you copied
   >me.
   >
   >> RAR appears to be a compression format used on the Windows platform,
   >so,
   >> unfortunately, I can't test his module very easily.  Does anyone else
   >have
   >> experience with it?
   >
   >I have a little experience with it. :)  I've been using it on and off
   >for almost 2 years (I used it for quite a while as it evolved before I
   >released it). I've also corresponded with a few others who are using it
   >successfully. If you try it and have any problems, please let me know.
   >If you don't have any problems using it, I enjoy hearing about that too.
   >;)
   >
   >There are also freely available implementations of command line unrar
   >utilities that you could call from Python. Many platforms are covered by
   >the author of RAR and contributors at:
   >
   >http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm
   >
   >When I have some time, I plan to make another release of pyUnRAR -
   >hopefully in the next couple of weeks. I haven't heard of any bugs since
   >I released 0.1 over a year ago so I'll probably call it 1.0. The only
   >change planned in the next release is the ability to access the
   >dates/times of files within the archive which I added at the request of
   >a user.
   >
   >Jimmy
   >