Function _unpack_tarfile

Lib/shutil.py:1342–1354

Unpack tar/tar.gz/tar.bz2/tar.xz/tar.zst `filename` to `extract_dir`

(filename, extract_dir, *, filter=None)

        zip.close()

def _unpack_tarfile(filename, extract_dir, *, filter=None):
    """Unpack tar/tar.gz/tar.bz2/tar.xz/tar.zst `filename` to `extract_dir`
    """
    import tarfile  # late import for breaking circular dependency
    try:
        tarobj = tarfile.open(filename)
    except tarfile.TarError:
        raise ReadError(
            "%s is not a compressed or uncompressed tar file" % filename)
    try:
        tarobj.extractall(extract_dir, filter=filter)
    finally:
        tarobj.close()

# Maps the name of the unpack format to a tuple containing:
# * extensions