On 1 September 2017 at 12:50, Tarek Ziadé <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() > > I can add a ticket and maybe a patch if people think this is a good > little enhancement
Sounds like a reasonable enhancement, but for your particular use couldn't you just subclass TarFile and call your progress callback at the end of the extract method after the base class extract? Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
