This packages allows the reading and writing of AR archive files.
It is inspired by the tarfile and zipfile that are part of Python's standard library (unfortunately the name arfile was taken on PyPI).
The package provides a ArFile partially implementing the interface of
tarfile.TarFile
>>> import unix_ar
>>> import tarfile
>>> ar_file = unix_ar.open('mypackage.deb')
>>> tarball = ar_file.open('data.tar.gz/') # default interest location on .deb files
>>> tar_file = tarfile.open(fileobj=tarball) # handles gz decompression internally
>>> tar_file.extractfile('usr/local/mypackage/bin/mybinarycontent.sh')
This package was created by Remi Rampin, that does not want to maintain it anymore.
FAQs
AR file handling
We found that unix-ar demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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