#LZIP FILE HOW TO#

#LZIP FILE HOW TO#

However, in this tutorial, you will learn how to compress and decompress files using the Python programming language.Ĭompressing files in modern operating systems is usually pretty simple. You may ask, why would I learn to compress files in Python where there are already provided tools out there? Well, de compressing files programmatically without any manual clicks is extremely useful. For example, when downloading machine learning datasets in which you want a piece of code to download, extract and load them into memory automatically. You may also want to add a compression/decompression feature in your application, or you have thousands of compressed files and you want to decompress them in one click, this tutorial can help. Related: How to Encrypt and Decrypt Files in Python.

# set the progress description of the progress bar # add file/folder/link to the tar file (compress) Tar = tarfile.open(tar_file, mode='w:gz') Let's start by compression, the following function is responsible for compressing a file/folder or a list of files/folders: def compress(tar_file, members):Īdds files (`members`) to a tar_file and compress it Open up a new Python file and: import tarfileįrom tqdm import tqdm # pip3 install tqdm Let's get started, we will be using the tarfile built-in module, so we don't have to install anything, you can optionally install tqdm just for printing progress bars: pip3 install tqdm #Python decompress lzip how to # tar.extractall(members=members, path=path)įirst, we opened the archive file as reading with gzip compression.

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