Hi! On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 01:50:13PM +0200, Tarek Ziad?? <ta...@ziade.org> wrote: > Hey, > > For large archives, I want to display a progress bar while the archive > is being extracted with: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile.TarFile.extractall > > I could write my own version of extractall() to do this, or maybe we > could introduce a callback option that gets called > everytime .extract() is called in extractall() > > The callback can receive the tarinfo object and where it's being > extracted. This is enough to plug a progress bar > and avoid reinventing .extractall()
What is "where" here? I think it should be 2 parameters -- position in the file (in bytes) and total file size; the total could be None if the size is unknown (the tar is piped from network or a (g/bz)zip subprocess). > I can add a ticket and maybe a patch if people think this is a good > little enhancement Definitely a good idea! > Cheers > Tarek > > -- > > Tarek Ziad?? | coding: https://ziade.org | running: https://foule.es | > twitter: @tarek_ziade Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
