How can unrar a file with python

python python-2.7 unzip unrar
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I can to unzip a file if file is a .zip and unrar file if my file type is .rar. How i can do this work with python 2.7?

Answer

Amir picture Amir · Oct 3, 2014

Late, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the answers.

pip install patool
import patoolib
patoolib.extract_archive("foo_bar.rar", outdir="path here")

Works on Windows and linux without any other libraries needed.

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