how to see the content of a particular file in .tar.gz archive without unzipping the contents?

Question

for ex abc.tar.gz has

abc/file1.txt
abc/file2.txt
abc/abc1/file3.txt
abc/abc2/file4.txt

i need to read/display the contents of file3.txt without extracting the file.

Thanks for any input.

Answer 1

import tarfile
spam = tarfile.open( "abc.tar.gz" )
if "abc/abc1/file3.txt" in spam.getnames():
    with spam.extractfile( "abc/abc1/file3.txt" ) as ham:
        print ham.read()

See tarfile.