Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: python-archive
Version: 0.1
Summary: Simple library that provides a common interface for extracting zip and tar archives.
Home-page: http://code.google.com/p/python-archive/
Author: Gary Wilson Jr.
Author-email: gary.wilson@gmail.com
License: LICENSE.txt
Description: ==============
        python-archive
        ==============
        
        This package provides a simple, pure-Python interface for handling various
        archive file formats.  Currently, archive extraction is the only supported
        action.  Supported file formats include:
        
        * Zip formats and equivalents: ``.zip``, ``.egg``, ``.jar``.
        * Tar and compressed tar formats: ``.tar``, ``.tar.gz``, ``.tgz``,
          ``.tar.bz2``, ``.tz2``.
        
        
        Example usage
        =============
        
        Using the ``Archive`` class::
        
            from archive import Archive
            a = Archive('files.tar.gz')
            a.extract()
        
        Using the ``extract`` convenience function::
        
            from archive import extract
            # Extract in current directory.
            extract('files.tar.gz')
            # Extract in directory 'unpack_dir'.
            extract('files.tar.gz', 'unpack_dir')
        
        
        Similar tools
        =============
        
        * http://pypi.python.org/pypi/patool/ - portable command line archive file
          manager.
        * http://pypi.python.org/pypi/gocept.download/ - zc.buildout recipe for
          downloading and extracting an archive.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
