How can unrar a file with python
How can I extract a .zip or .rar file using Python?
Late, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the answers.
pip install patool
import patoolib
patoolib.extract_archive("foo_bar.rar", outdir="path here")
Works on Windows and linux without any other libraries needed.
Try the pyunpack package:
from pyunpack import Archive
Archive('a.zip').extractall('/path/to')
A good package for it is rarfile :
Infos and docs here :
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rarfile/
https://rarfile.readthedocs.io/api.html