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Re: how should i add extension and unzip again?

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On 2015-03-18 23:22, PK Khatri wrote:
> This script untars .gz file to file without extension
> --------
> import gzip
> import glob
> import os.path
> import tarfile
>
> source_dir = "C:\\TEST"
> dest_dir = "C:\\TEST"
> for src_name in glob.glob(os.path.join(source_dir, '*.gz')):
>      base = os.path.basename(src_name)
>      dest_name = os.path.join(dest_dir, base[:-3])
>      with tarfile.open(src_name, 'r') as infile:
>          with open(dest_name, 'w') as outfile:
>              for line in infile:
>                  outfile.write(str(line))
> ---------
>   but i know it is a compressed file so I need to add extension .zip to it and run untar/unzip one more time so it will fully unzip to folders and files, not sure how, can someone help please?
> Thank you.
>

There's a method called 'extractall':

with tarfile.open(src_name, 'r') as infile:
     infile.extractall(dest_dir)

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how should i add extension and unzip again? PK Khatri <piseema@gmail.com> - 2015-03-18 16:22 -0700
  Re: how should i add extension and unzip again? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-03-18 23:58 +0000
    Re: how should i add extension and unzip again? PK Khatri <piseema@gmail.com> - 2015-03-18 20:28 -0700

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