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rarfile - RAR archive reader for Python
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This is Python module for RAR_ archive reading. The interface
is made as zipfile_ like as possible. Licensed under ISC_
license.
Features:
- Supports both RAR3 and RAR5 format archives.
- Supports multi volume archives.
- Supports Unicode filenames.
- Supports password-protected archives.
- Supports archive and file comments.
- Archive parsing and non-compressed files are handled in pure Python code.
- Compressed files are extracted by executing external tool: either ``unrar``
from RARLAB_ or ``bsdtar`` from libarchive_.
- Works with both Python 2.7 and 3.x.
Links:
- `Documentation`_
- `Downloads`_
- `Git`_ repo
.. _Git: https://github.com/markokr/rarfile
.. _Downloads: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rarfile
.. _Documentation: https://rarfile.readthedocs.io/
.. _RAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_%28file_format%29
.. _zipfile: https://docs.python.org/2/library/zipfile.html
.. _ISC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
.. _libarchive: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
.. _RARLAB: http://www.rarlab.com/