We will come back to that later.Ĭalling the getinfo() method one by one on all files can be a tiresome process when there are a lot of files that need to be processed. This will give you access to information specific to that file, like the compressed and uncompressed size of the file or its last modification time. To get information on a specific file in the archive, you can use the getinfo() method of the ZipFile object. Using the namelist() method of the ZipFile object will return a list of all members of an archive by name. The zipfile module allows us to inquire about the contents of an archive without ever extracting it. Similarly, you may need to extract only those files which are larger than a specific size. Up to this point, your only option to do so is by extracting all the files in the archive. extract ( 'Fantasy Jungle.pdf', 'C: \ Stories \ Fantasy' )Ĭonsider a scenario where you need to see if a zip archive contains a specific file. ZipFile ( 'C: \ Stories \ Fantasy \ archive.zip' ) as fantasy_zip :įantasy_zip.

v2.0 - released with WinRAR 2.0 and Rar for MS-DOS 2.With zipfile.

v1.3 (original, does not have “Rar!” signature).

WinRAR software, by RARLab, is the shareware file archiving utility (free for 40 days) for Microsoft Windows platform the software was ported to Linux (only as extractor) by the same Author, Eugene Roshal. There are several application software available for Windows, Linux and MacOS for extraction of RAR files.

The format is used to archive files with different methods including various compression techniques. RAR, which stands for Roshal ARchive file format, is a proprietary file format created by Eugene Roshal in 1995 who was a Russian software engineer. rar extension are archive files that are created for storing information in compressed or normal form.

Compress file to rar