I have a RAR archive with 2 files and I want to extract only one. I found in another answer that I could use the rarfile
package, which according to the documentation contains the extract
function. However, when I try to run a script I get a FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2]
and the following information: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred
: ... rarfile.RarCannotExec: Unrar not installed? (rarfile.UNRAR_TOOL='unrar')
.
From the information I could find, I saw it could be related with the absence of the Unrar.exe
executable in the PATH and I tried to add it, but nothing changed. Another suggestion was to add rarfile.UNRAR_TOOL='unrar'
to the script as a way to configure the behavior of the package, again same error.
This is my MWE, written and tested in Python 3.5.3:
from rarfile import RarFile
with RarFile('Test.rar') as file:
file.extract(file.namelist()[0])
The file is being properly opened, since file.namelist()
returns the archive's contents.
Thanks in advance!
Update based on OP comments:
I managed to unpack just one file using the following code
from rarfile import RarFile
RarFile.UNRAR_TOOL='C:\\full\\path\\to\\UnRARDLL.exe'
with RarFile('test.rar') as file:
file.extract(file.namelist()[0])
Download UnRARDLL.exe and provide the correct full path to RarFile.UNRAR_TOOL
.
You may want to use patool
import patoolib
patoolib.extract_archive("Test.rar", outdir="/some/dir")
Works on windows
and linux
, no extra software needed.
To install use: pip install patool