extract tgz files in python
import os, sys, tarfile
def extract(tar_url, extract_path='.'):
print tar_url
tar = tarfile.open(tar_url, 'r')
for item in tar:
tar.extract(item, extract_path)
if item.name.find(".tgz") != -1 or item.name.find(".tar") != -1:
extract(item.name, "./" + item.name[:item.name.rfind('/')])
try:
extract(sys.argv[1] + '.tgz')
print 'Done.'
except:
name = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
print name[:name.rfind('.')], '<filename>'