7z archive reader akin to zipfile?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2018-01-03 12:10:22 -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> The zipfile module is kind of cool because you can access elements of
> the archive without explicitly uncompressing the entire archive and
> writing the structure to disk. I've got some 7z archives I'd like to
> treat the same way (read specific elements without first extractingg
> the entire tree to disk). I see the pylzma module for compressing and
> uncompressing files, but nothing slightly higher level. Does something
> like that exist?

Have you looked at libarchive (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/libarchive)?
I think it does what you want and it transparently supports several
archive types (including zip and 7z).

        hp

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