How can unrar a file with python

Late, but I wasn't satisfied with any of the answers.

pip install patoolimport patoolibpatoolib.extract_archive("foo_bar.rar", outdir="path here")

Works on Windows and linux without any other libraries needed.

python unzip unrar

Try the pyunpack package:

from pyunpack import ArchiveArchive('a.zip').extractall('/path/to')

python unzip unrar

A good package for it is rarfile :

Infos and docs here :

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