Reading files from .ar / .deb archives

From	Кисик Мурысик <kisik2010@live.ru>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Reading files from .ar / .deb archives
Date	2015-11-25 00:33 +0300
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Hello!
I'm new to Python, so I decided to learn it and write simple apt alternative (apt is somewhat broken for me).
But I can't decide - can I read just one file (/DEBIAN/control) from archive without unpacking it, or do I need to unpack? And what module I can use to handle .ar files? (I read in Wikipedia that .deb is just .ar archive with specific structure)

Sincerely, ヴ｡
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