extractcode 21.1.21

A mostly universal archive extractor using z7zip, libarchve, other libraries and the Python standard library for reliable archive extraction.

• license: Apache-2.0

• copyright: copyright (c) nexB. Inc. and others

• homepage_url: https://github.com/nexB/extractode

• keywords: archive, extraction, libarchive, 7zip, scancode-toolkit

ExtractCode is a universal archive extractor. It uses behind the scenes the Python standard library, a custom ctypes binding to libarchive and the 7zip command line to extract a large number of common and less common archives and compressed files. It tries to extract things in the same way on all OSes, including auto-renaming files that would not have valid names on certain filesystems or when there are multiple copies of the same path in a given archive. The extraction is driven from a “voting” system that considers the file extension(s) and name, the file type and mime type (using a ctypes binding to libmagic) to select the most appropriate extractor or uncompressor function. It can handle multi-level archives such as tar.gz.

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To set up the development environment:

source configure

To run unit tests:

pytest -vvs -n 2

To clean up development environment:

./configure --clean