My question is like: when use:
import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz")
tar.extractall()
tar.close()
if the file before compress called "sampleFolder", after I doing the above steps, how to return the "sampleFolder" name, better with its full path, or how to set the result to other name like "Folder"?
it's not a good question, but I actually have demand on this in my project.
I have to edit the question to: if I don't know the "sampleFolder", can I get a return to it after the decompress step
It will be extracted to the working directory by default:
import os
os.getcwd()
So, the path to the extracted data is:
from pathlib import Path
extracted_to_path = Path.cwd() / 'sampleFolder'
To extract in a different location:
with tarfile.open('sample.tar.gz') as tar:
tar.extractall(path='/other/folder')
edit: If you just want to know the name "sampleFolder"
contained in the archive, it's not necessary to extract somewhere. You should use getnames
:
tar.getnames()
Note that tarballs can have multiple files or folders within.
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