Python-libarchive is a wrapper around the excellent libarchive library. It allows you to work with many different archive formats using a single API.
http://code.google.com/p/python-libarchive/ Python-libarchive is a SWIG wrapper around the library as well as some high-level Python classes to make usage easier. There are also compatibility modules for zipfile and tarfile. These modules use libarchive to deal with the archive files, but provide an interface as similar as possible to the stdlib versions. The library is usable, but by no means complete. This library was written against libarchive 3.0.X and will not work with libarchive 2. Some instructions on installing libarchive and python-libarchive are available in the Wiki. http://code.google.com/p/python-libarchive/wiki/Building There is a Google Group for feedback. http://groups.google.com/group/python-libarchive-users Thank you! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/