Giampaolo Rodolà <g.rod...@gmail.com> writes: > 2010/8/4 Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furus...@usit.uio.no>: >> Is there an equivalent of zipfile.py for .7z archives? >> I have one which extracts an archive member by running 7z e -so, >> but that's a *slow* way to read one file at a time. >> >> Google found me some python interfaces to lzma, but apparently they >> only handle single compressed files, not .7z archives. >> >> (Actually another archive format would be fine if it is competitive. >> I'm just looking to compress my .zips better. I need a Python module >> to extract members reasonably fast, but slow compression would be OK.) > > http://bugs.python.org/issue5689
[For lzma/xz compressed tar archives] Thanks, but extraction of individual members from .tar.xz looks inherently slow. To locate the member, you need to decompress the entire portion of the archive preceding the member. -- Hallvard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
