subprocess.call和tar -zxvf

Question

I am trying to call this command tar -zxvf file.tar.gz from a python script and I'm having trouble with it. I've read some relevant q/a's but I still haven't figured out how to do it.

I was thinking to fit my code to the original command:

subprocess.check_call(args, *, stdin=None, stdout=None, stderr=None, shell=False)

So far I've made several attempts, as shown below

stdin = file.tar.gz
subprocess.check_call(-zxvf, stdin)

Any help? Thanks.

Answer 1

You can untar a file using the tarfile module

import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open("sample.tar.gz")
tar.extractall()
tar.close()