how should i add extension and unzip again?

[PK Khatri]

On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 4:58:34 PM UTC-7, MRAB wrote:
> On 2015-03-18 23:22, PK Khatri wrote:
> > This script untars .gz file to file without extension
> > --------
> > import gzip
> > import glob
> > import os.path
> > import tarfile
> >
> > source_dir = "C:\\TEST"
> > dest_dir = "C:\\TEST"
> > for src_name in glob.glob(os.path.join(source_dir, '*.gz')):
> >      base = os.path.basename(src_name)
> >      dest_name = os.path.join(dest_dir, base[:-3])
> >      with tarfile.open(src_name, 'r') as infile:
> >          with open(dest_name, 'w') as outfile:
> >              for line in infile:
> >                  outfile.write(str(line))
> > ---------
> >   but i know it is a compressed file so I need to add extension .zip to it and run untar/unzip one more time so it will fully unzip to folders and files, not sure how, can someone help please?
> > Thank you.
> >
> 
> There's a method called 'extractall':
> 
> with tarfile.open(src_name, 'r') as infile:
>      infile.extractall(dest_dir)

Wow!! Thank you so much, that did it. thank you.
PK.