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py7zr

Pure python 7-zip library

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Description

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|logo| py7zr -- a 7z library on python
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py7zr is a library and utility to support 7zip archive compression, decompression,
encryption and decryption written by Python programming language.

Incompatible change
===================

There is incompatible change between v1.0.0-rc1 to v1.0.0-rc2.
I abandon methods ``read`` and ``readall``.
When you want to extract the archive to memory, you need to use
``extract`` method with ``factory`` argument. The ``factory`` takes a factory class, as of the GoF design pattern,
that provides object implements ``Py7zIO`` interface as a call back instance.
``SevenZipFile`` extract and write uncompressed data into your ``Py7zIO`` object.

Discussion Forum
================

You are welcome to join discussions on project forum/builtin-board at
https://github.com/miurahr/py7zr/discussions

You can see announcements of new releases, questions and answers, and
new feature ideas. When you doubt for usage of py7zr library with unclear
manuals, please feel easy to raise question on forum.

Compression algorithms
======================

``py7zr`` supports algorithms and filters which `lzma module`_ and `liblzma`_ support,
and supports BZip2 and Deflate that are implemented in python core libraries,
It also supports ZStandard, Brotli and PPMd with third party libraries.

``py7zr`` is also able to encrypt and decrypt data using 3rd party encryption library.


Supported algorithms
--------------------

* compress
    * LZMA2
    * LZMA
    * Bzip2
    * Deflate
    * Copy
    * ZStandard
    * Brotli
    * PPMd
    * Enhanced Deflate (Experimental)

* crypt
    * 7zAES

* Filters
    * Delta
    * BCJ(X86,ARMT,ARM,PPC,SPARC,IA64)

.. note::
  * A feature handling symbolic link is basically compatible with ``p7zip`` implementation,
    but not work with original 7-zip because the original does not implement the feature.
  * ``py7zr`` try checking symbolic links strictly and raise ValueError when bad link is requested,
    but it does **not** guarantee to block all the bad cases.
  * ZStandard and Brotli is not default methods of 7-zip, so these archives are considered
    not to be compatible with original 7-zip on windows/p7zip on linux/mac.
  * Enhanced Deflate is also known as ``DEFLATE64`` :sup:`TM` that is a registered trademark of ``PKWARE, Inc.``
  * Enhanced Deflate is tested only on CPython. It is disabled on PyPy.

Not supported algorithms
------------------------

* BCJ2 (Standard `lzma module`_ does not provide).


Install
=======

You can install py7zr as usual other libraries using pip.

.. code-block:: shell

    $ pip install py7zr

OR, alternatively using conda:

.. code-block:: shell

    $ conda install -c conda-forge py7zr

Documents
=========

User manuals
------------

* `User Guide`_ for latest version.

* `API Guide`_ for latest version.

* `Manual`_ for stable version.

Developer guide
---------------

* `Contribution guidelines`_ for this project.

* `Contribution guidelines(html)`_  for this project.

* `Code of conduct`_ for this project.

* `Code of conduct(html)`_ for this project.

* `7z file specification`_ that py7zr stand on.


.. _`User Guide`: https://py7zr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide.html

.. _`API Guide` : https://py7zr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html

.. _`Manual` : https://py7zr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

.. _`Contribution guidelines(html)` : https://py7zr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contribution.html

.. _`Contribution guidelines` : docs/contribution.rst

.. _`Code  of conduct` : docs/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.rst

.. _`Code  of conduct(html)` : https://py7zr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.html

.. _`7z file specification` : https://py7zr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/archive_format.html


CLI Usage
=========

You can run command script py7zr like as follows;

* List archive contents

.. code-block:: shell

    $ py7zr l test.7z

* Extract archive

.. code-block:: shell

    $ py7zr x test.7z

* Extract archive with password

.. code-block:: shell

    $ py7zr x -P test.7z
      password?: ****

* Create and compress to archive

.. code-block:: shell

    $ py7zr c target.7z test_dir

* Create multi-volume archive

.. code-block:: shell

    $ py7zr c -v 500k target.7z test_dir

* Test archive

.. code-block:: shell

    $ py7zr t test.7z

* Append files to archive

.. code-block:: shell

    $ py7zr a test.7z test_dir

* Show information

.. code-block:: shell

    $ py7zr i

* Show version

.. code-block:: shell

    $ py7zr --version


SevenZipFile Class Usage
========================

py7zr is a library which can use in your python application.

Decompression/Decryption
------------------------

Here is a code snippet how to decompress some file in your application.

.. code-block:: python

    import py7zr

    archive = py7zr.SevenZipFile('sample.7z', mode='r')
    archive.extractall(path="/tmp")
    archive.close()



You can also use 'with' block because py7zr provide context manager(v0.6 and later).

.. code-block:: python

    import py7zr

    with py7zr.SevenZipFile('sample.7z', mode='r') as z:
        z.extractall()

    with py7zr.SevenZipFile('target.7z', 'w') as z:
        z.writeall('./base_dir')


``py7zr`` also supports extraction of single or selected files by 'extract(targets=['file path'])'.
Note: if you specify only a file but not a parent directory, it will fail.

.. code-block:: python

    import py7zr
    import re

    filter_pattern = re.compile(r'<your/target/file_and_directories/regex/expression>')
    with py7zr.SevenZipFile('archive.7z', 'r') as archive:
        allfiles = archive.getnames()
        selective_files = [f for f in allfiles if filter_pattern.match(f)]
        archive.extract(targets=selective_files)


py7zr support an extraction of password protected archive.(v0.6 and later)

.. code-block:: python

    import py7zr

    with py7zr.SevenZipFile('encrypted.7z', mode='r', password='secret') as z:
        z.extractall()

Compression/Encryption
----------------------

Here is a code snippet how to produce archive.

.. code-block:: python

    import py7zr

    with py7zr.SevenZipFile('target.7z', 'w') as archive:
        archive.writeall('/path/to/base_dir', 'base')


To create encrypted archive, please pass a password.

.. code-block:: python

    import py7zr

    with py7zr.SevenZipFile('target.7z', 'w', password='secret') as archive:
        archive.writeall('/path/to/base_dir', 'base')


To create archive with algorithms such as zstandard, you can call with custom filter.

.. code-block:: python

    import py7zr

    my_filters = [{"id": py7zr.FILTER_ZSTD}]
    another_filters = [{"id": py7zr.FILTER_ARM}, {"id": py7zr.FILTER_LZMA2, "preset": 7}]
    with py7zr.SevenZipFile('target.7z', 'w', filters=my_filters) as archive:
        archive.writeall('/path/to/base_dir', 'base')


shutil helper
=============

py7zr also support `shutil`  interface.

.. code-block:: python

    from py7zr import pack_7zarchive, unpack_7zarchive
    import shutil

    # register file format at first.
    shutil.register_archive_format('7zip', pack_7zarchive, description='7zip archive')
    shutil.register_unpack_format('7zip', ['.7z'], unpack_7zarchive)

    # extraction
    shutil.unpack_archive('test.7z', '/tmp')

    # compression
    shutil.make_archive('target', '7zip', 'src')


Requirements
============

`py7zr` uses a python3 standard `lzma module`_ for extraction and compression.
The standard lzma module uses `liblzma`_ that support core compression algorithm of 7zip.

Minimum required version is Python 3.10.

``py7zr`` tested on Linux, macOS, Windows and Ubuntu aarch64.

It hopefully works on M1 Mac too.

Recommended versions are:

- CPython 3.10.0 and later.
- PyPy3.10-7.3.17 and later.

Following fixes are included in these versions, and it is not fixed on python3.6.

- `BPO-21872`_: LZMA library sometimes fails to decompress a file
- `PyPy3-3090`_: lzma.LZMADecomporessor.decompress does not respect max_length
- `PyPy3-3242`_: '_lzma_cffi' has no function named 'lzma_stream_encoder'

Following improvements are included in CPython 3.10

- `BPO-41486`_: Faster bz2/lzma/zlib via new output buffering

.. _`lzma module`: https://docs.python.org/3/library/lzma.html
.. _`liblzma`: https://tukaani.org/xz/
.. _`BPO-21872`: https://bugs.python.org/issue21872