rarfile 4.2


pip install rarfile

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Released: Apr 03, 2024
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Author: Marko Kreen
Requires Python: >=3.6
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Development Status
  • 5 - Production/Stable

Intended Audience
  • Developers

License
  • OSI Approved :: ISC License (ISCL)

Operating System
  • OS Independent

Programming Language
  • Python :: 3

Topic
  • Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
  • System :: Archiving :: Compression

This is Python module for RAR archive reading. The interface follows the style of zipfile. Licensed under ISC license.

Features:

  • Supports both RAR3 and RAR5 format archives.

  • Supports multi volume archives.

  • Supports Unicode filenames.

  • Supports password-protected archives.

  • Supports archive and file comments.

  • Archive parsing and non-compressed files are handled in pure Python code.

  • Compressed files are extracted by executing external tool: unrar (preferred), unar, 7zip or bsdtar.

  • Works with Python 3.6+.

Backends:

Backend

Status

Notes

unrar

Supported

  • Recommended: full format support.

  • Non-free software, but free to use.

unar

Supported

  • Not usable on Windows: last build is from 2013 (v1.8.1) that does support output to stdout.

  • Does not support RAR2 locked files.

  • Does not support RAR5 Blake2 hash checking.

7zip

Supported

  • RAR support not available on Debian/Ubuntu repos.

p7zip

Supported

  • Unmaintained?

  • Requires p7zip-rar package on Debian/Ubuntu.

bsdtar

Supported

  • Not recommended: limited RAR format support.

  • Does not support multi-volume archives.

  • Does not support solid archives.

  • Does not support password-protected archives.

  • Does not support RARVM-based compression filters.

unrar-free

Supported

  • Supports output to stdout (v0.2.0).

  • Based on libarchive so similar format support as bsdtar but supports multi-volume (v0.3.0).

Links:

4.2 Apr 03, 2024
4.1 Sep 17, 2023
4.0 Jul 31, 2020
3.3 Jul 26, 2020
3.2 Jul 19, 2020
3.1 Sep 15, 2019
3.0 Dec 27, 2016
2.8 Jun 06, 2016
2.7 Nov 23, 2014
2.6 Apr 10, 2013
2.5 Jan 19, 2012
2.4 Nov 05, 2011

Wheel compatibility matrix

Platform Python 3
any

Files in release

No dependencies