Is there a Python package similar to Perl Archive :: Extract?

Question

I am looking for a package that will automatically detect the type and extract the archive (zip, tar.gz, etc.). In Perl, this is easy - in Python, I cannot find any simple package / class for this ...

Answer 1

Going off Mark Bayer's answer , perhaps you can link it all together mimetypes(also from the standard library). You can determine the type of file and process it accordingly. The world needs a version of Python Archive::Extract, and we want you to write it!

Answer 2

In Python you can use:

• zipfile
• tarfile - : Tarfile bz2ed gzipped tar.
• bz2
• gzip

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