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>'
