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The interface is made as <a class="reference external" href="http://docs.python.org/library/zipfile.html">zipfile</a> like as possible. Licensed under <a class="reference external" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license">ISC</a> license.</p> <p>Features:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>Supports both RAR3 and RAR5 format archives.</li> <li>Supports multi volume archives.</li> <li>Supports Unicode filenames.</li> <li>Supports password-protected archives.</li> <li>Supports archive and file comments.</li> <li>Archive parsing and non-compressed files are handled in pure Python code.</li> <li>Compressed files are extracted by executing external tool: either <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unrar</span></code> from <a class="reference external" href="http://www.rarlab.com/">RARLAB</a> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bsdtar</span></code> from <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive">libarchive</a>.</li> <li>Works with both Python 2.7 and 3.x.</li> </ul> <p>Documentation:</p> <div class="toctree-wrapper compound"> <ul> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="api.html">Module Documentation</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="faq.html">FAQs</a></li> <li class="toctree-l1"><a class="reference internal" href="news.html">Release News</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="section" id="indices-and-tables"> <h1>Indices and tables<a class="headerlink" href="#indices-and-tables" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <ul class="simple"> <li><a class="reference internal" href="genindex.html"><span class="std std-ref">Index</span></a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="py-modindex.html"><span class="std std-ref">Module Index</span></a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="search.html"><span class="std std-ref">Search Page</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="#">Table of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">rarfile - RAR archive reader for Python</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#indices-and-tables">Indices and tables</a></li> </ul> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="api.html" title="next chapter">rarfile API documentation</a></p> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="_sources/index.rst.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <div class="searchformwrapper"> <form class="search" action="search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="api.html" title="rarfile API documentation" >next</a> |</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-0"><a href="#">RarFile 3.0 documentation</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> © Copyright 2005-2016, Marko Kreen. </div> </body> </html>