rarfile history

Version 2.7 (2014-11-23)

  • Allow use of bsdtar as decompression backend. It sits on top of libarchive, which has support for reading RAR archives.

    Limitations of libarchive RAR backend:

    • Does not support solid archives.
    • Does not support password-protected archives.
    • Does not support “parsing filters” used for audio/image/executable data, so few non-solid, non-encrypted archives also fail.

    Now rarfile checks if unrar and if not then tries bsdtar. If that works, then keeps using it. If not then configuration stays with unrar which will then appear in error messages.

  • Both RarFile and is_rarfile() now accept file-like object. Eg. io.BytesIO. Only requirement is that the object must be seekable. This mirrors similar funtionality in zipfile.

    Based on patch by Chase Zhang.

  • Uniform error handling. RarFile accepts errors="strict" argument.

    Allow user to tune whether parsing and missing file errors will raise exception. If error is not raised, the error string can be queried with RarFile.strerror() method.

Version 2.6 (2013-04-10)

  • Add context manager support for RarFile class. Both RarFile and RarExtFile support with statement now. (Wentao Han)
  • RarFile.volumelist() method, returns filenames of archive volumes.
  • Re-throw clearer error in case unrar is not found in PATH.
  • Sync new unrar4.x error code from rar.txt.
  • Use Sphinx for documentation, push docs to rtfd.org

Version 2.5 (2012-01-19)

Fixes:

Version 2.4 (2011-11-05)

Fixes:

  • USE_DATETIME: survive bad values from RAR
  • Fix bug in corrupt unicode filename handling
  • dumprar: make unicode chars work with both pipe and console

Version 2.3 (2011-07-03)

Features:

  • Support .seek() method on file streams. (Kristian Larsson)
  • Support .readinto() method on file streams. Optimized implementation is available on Python 2.6+ where memoryview is available.
  • Support file comments - RarInfo.comment contains decompressed data if available.
  • File objects returned by RarFile.open() are io.RawIOBase-compatible. They can further wrapped with io.BufferedReader and io.TextIOWrapper.
  • Now .getinfo() uses dict lookup instead of sequential scan when searching archive entry. This speeds up prococessing for archives that have many entries.
  • Option UNICODE_COMMENTS to decode both archive and file comments to unicode. It uses TRY_ENCODINGS for list of encodings to try. If off, comments are left as byte strings. Default: 0
  • Option PATH_SEP to change path separator. Default: r'\', set rarfile.PATH_SEP='/' to be compatibe with zipfile.
  • Option USE_DATETIME to convert timestamps to datetime objects. Default: 0, timestamps are tuples.
  • Option TRY_ENCODINGS to allow tuning attempted encoding list.
  • Reorder RarInfo fiels to better show zipfile-compatible fields.
  • Standard regtests to make sure various features work

Compatibility:

  • Drop RarInfo.unicode_filename, plain RarInfo.filename is already unicode since 2.0.
  • .read(-1) reads now until EOF. Previously it returned empty buffer.

Fixes:

  • Make encrypted headers work with Python 3.x bytes() and with old 2.x ‘sha’ module.
  • Simplify subprocess.Popen usage when launching unrar. Previously it tried to optimize and work around OS/Python bugs, but this is not maintainable.
  • Use temp rar file hack on multi-volume archives too.
  • Always .wait() on unrar, to avoid zombies
  • Convert struct.error to BadRarFile
  • Plug some fd leaks. Affected: Jython, PyPy.
  • Broken archives are handled more robustly.

Version 2.2 (2010-08-19)

Fixes:

  • Relaxed volume naming. Now it just calculates new volume name by finding number in old one and increasing it, without any expectations what that number should be.
  • Files with 4G of compressed data in one colume were handled wrong. Fix.
  • DOS timestamp seconds need to be multiplied with 2.
  • Correct EXTTIME parsing.

Cleanups:

  • Compressed size is per-volume, sum them together, so that user sees complete compressed size for files split over several volumes.
  • dumprar: Show unknown bits.
  • Use struct.Struct to cache unpack formats.
  • Support missing os.devnull. (Python 2.3)

Version 2.1 (2010-07-31)

Features:

  • Minimal implmentation for RarFile.extract(), RarFile.extractall(), RarFile.testrar(). They are simple shortcuts to unrar invocation.
  • Accept RarInfo object where filename is expected.
  • Include dumprar.py in .tgz. It can be used to visualize RAR structure and test module.
  • Support for encrypted file headers.

Fixes:

  • Don’t read past ENDARC, there could be non-RAR data there.
  • RAR 2.x: It does not write ENDARC, but our volume code expected it. Fix that.
  • RAR 2.x: Support more than 200 old-style volumes.

Cleanups:

  • Load comment only when requested.
  • Cleanup of internal config variables. They should have now final names.
  • RarFile.open(): Add mode=r argument to match zipfile.
  • Doc and comments cleanup, minimize duplication.
  • Common wrappers for both compressed and uncompressed files, now RarFile.open() also does CRC-checking.

Version 2.0 (2010-04-29)

Features:

  • Python 3 support. Still works with 2.x.
  • Parses extended time fields. (.mtime, .ctime, .atime)
  • RarFile.open() method. This makes possible to process large entries that do not fit into memory.
  • Supports password-protected archives.
  • Supports archive comments.

Cleanups:

  • Uses subprocess module to launch unrar.
  • .filename is always Unicode string, .unicode_filename is now deprecated.
  • .CRC is unsigned again, as python3 crc32() is unsigned.

Version 1.1 (2008-08-31)

Fixes:

  • Replace os.tempnam() with tempfile.mkstemp(). (Jason Moiron)
  • Fix infinite loop in _extract_hack on unexpected EOF
  • RarInfo.CRC is now signed value to match crc32()
  • RarFile.read() now checks file crc

Cleanups:

  • more docstrings
  • throw proper exceptions (subclasses of rarfile.Error)
  • RarInfo has fields pre-initialized, so they appear in help()
  • rename RarInfo.data to RarInfo.header_data
  • dont use “print” when header parsing fails
  • use try/finally to delete temp rar

Version 1.0 (2005-08-08)

  • First release.