I want to create a script for unzip (.tar.gz) file via (Python)

Question

I am trying to make a script for unzipping all the .tar.gz files from folders in one directory. For example, I will have a file which it calls ( testing.tar.gz). Then if I do manually, I can press to "extract here" then the .tar.gz file will create a new file, and it calls testing.tar. Finally, if I repeat the process of pressing "extract here", the .tar file prodcudes me all the .pdf files.

I wonder that how can I do it, and I have my code here and it seems doesn't realty work tho.

import os import tarfile import zipfile  def extract_file(path, to_directory='.'):     if path.endswith('.zip'):         opener, mode = zipfile.ZipFile, 'r'     elif path.endswith('.tar.gz') or path.endswith('.tgz'):         opener, mode = tarfile.open, 'r:gz'     elif path.endswith('.tar.bz2') or path.endswith('.tbz'):         opener, mode = tarfile.open, 'r:bz2'     else:          raise ValueError, "Could not extract `%s` as no appropriate extractor is found" % path      cwd = os.getcwd()     os.chdir(to_directory)      try:         file = opener(path, mode)         try: file.extractall()         finally: file.close()     finally:         os.chdir(cwd) 

Answer 1

Why do you want to "press" twice to extract a .tar.gz, when you can easily do it once? Here is a simple code to extract both .tar and .tar.gz in one go:

import tarfile  if fname.endswith("tar.gz"):     tar = tarfile.open(fname, "r:gz")     tar.extractall()     tar.close() elif fname.endswith("tar"):     tar = tarfile.open(fname, "r:")     tar.extractall()     tar.close()