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I was trying to decompress a 7z file using python, but I can't seem to figure it out. I figured I could use the lzma module in python 3, but I can't seem to figure it out:

I thought it would work like the zipfile package:

import lzma with lzma.open('data.7z') as f: f.extractall(r"<output path>")

but after reading the documents, it doesn't seems to. So here is my question: How can you extract a 7z file using the standard package? I don't want to call subprocess to extract the files using 7-zip because I can't guarantee that users have this software installed.

I've searched the internets and stack oerflow and noticed all the answers almost go back to using subprocessing which I would like to avoid like the plague.

Though there are similar questions on stackoverflow, the answers all still depend on 7-zip or the 7zip SDK. I do not want to use the 7-zip sdk/exe for extraction because that assumes the users have the software installed.

Here is the properties from the 7z file:

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  • @Tezirg this is for python 2 not 3 Commented May 23, 2017 at 10:55
  • executing the above code, what output do you get ? any exceptions ? Commented May 23, 2017 at 14:04
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    @NabeelAhmed builtins.AttributeError: 'LZMAFile' object has no attribute 'extractall' Commented May 23, 2017 at 14:34
  • I think that this might be a duplicate of: Python3: lzma unpack .7z file Commented Sep 22, 2017 at 20:41

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What about trying this?:

from pyunpack import Archive Archive('data.7z').extractall("<output path>")
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Marvelous, after pip install pyunpack and pip install patool it worked excellent!
also, please, apt-get install p7zip if you use debian

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