rarfile - RAR archive reader for Python
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This is Python module for RAR_ archive reading.
The interface follows the style of zipfile_.
Licensed under ISC_ license.

Features:

* Supports both RAR3 and RAR5 format archives.
* Supports multi volume archives.
* Supports Unicode filenames.
* Supports password-protected archives.
* Supports archive and file comments.
* Archive parsing and non-compressed files are handled in pure Python code.
* Compressed files are extracted by executing external tool:
  unrar_ (preferred), unar_ or bsdtar_.
* Works with Python 3.6+.

.. _RAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR_%28file_format%29
.. _zipfile: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html
.. _ISC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
.. _bsdtar: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive
.. _unrar: https://www.rarlab.com/
.. _unar: https://theunarchiver.com/command-line

Links:

- `Documentation`_
- `Downloads`_
- `Git`_ repo

.. _Git: https://github.com/markokr/rarfile
.. _Downloads: https://pypi.org/project/rarfile/
.. _Documentation: https://rarfile.readthedocs.io/