pythontarfilecompression

In python, if extract a tar.gz file, how to get or set the name of the result file

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

Solution

  • 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.