py7zr 0.22.0

Description:

py7zr 0.22.0

py7zr is a library and utility to support 7zip archive compression, decompression,
encryption and decryption written by Python programming language.

Discussion Forum
You are welcome to join discussions on project forum/builtin-board at
https://github.com/miurahr/py7zr/discussions
You can see announcements of new releases, questions and answers, and
new feature ideas. When you doubt for usage of py7zr library with unclear
manuals, please feel easy to raise question on forum.


Compression algorithms
py7zr supports algorithms and filters which lzma module and liblzma support,
and supports BZip2 and Deflate that are implemented in python core libraries,
It also supports ZStandard, Brotli and PPMd with third party libraries.
py7zr is also able to encrypt and decrypt data using 3rd party encryption library.

Supported algorithms


compress

LZMA2
LZMA
Bzip2
Deflate
Copy
ZStandard
Brotli
PPMd
Enhanced Deflate (Experimental)





crypt

7zAES





Filters

Delta
BCJ(X86,ARMT,ARM,PPC,SPARC,IA64)






Note

A feature handling symbolic link is basically compatible with p7zip implementation,
but not work with original 7-zip because the original does not implement the feature.
py7zr try checking symbolic links strictly and raise ValueError when bad link is requested,
but it does not guarantee to block all the bad cases.
ZStandard and Brotli is not default methods of 7-zip, so these archives are considered
not to be compatible with original 7-zip on windows/p7zip on linux/mac.
Enhanced Deflate is also known as DEFLATE64 TM that is a registered trademark of PKWARE, Inc.
Enhanced Deflate is tested only on CPython. It is disabled on PyPy.




Not supported algorithms

BCJ2 (Standard lzma module does not provide).




Install
You can install py7zr as usual other libraries using pip.
$ pip install py7zr
OR, alternatively using conda:
$ conda install -c conda-forge py7zr


Documents

User manuals

User Guide for latest version.
API Guide for latest version.
Manual for stable version.



Developer guide

Contribution guidelines for this project.
Contribution guidelines(html) for this project.
Code of conduct for this project.
Code of conduct(html) for this project.
7z file specification that py7zr stand on.




CLI Usage
You can run command script py7zr like as follows;

List archive contents

$ py7zr l test.7z

Extract archive

$ py7zr x test.7z

Extract archive with password

$ py7zr x -P test.7z
password?: ****

Create and compress to archive

$ py7zr c target.7z test_dir

Create multi-volume archive

$ py7zr c -v 500k target.7z test_dir

Test archive

$ py7zr t test.7z

Append files to archive

$ py7zr a test.7z test_dir

Show information

$ py7zr i

Show version

$ py7zr --version


SevenZipFile Class Usage
py7zr is a library which can use in your python application.

Decompression/Decryption
Here is a code snippet how to decompress some file in your application.
import py7zr

archive = py7zr.SevenZipFile('sample.7z', mode='r')
archive.extractall(path="/tmp")
archive.close()
You can also use ‘with’ block because py7zr provide context manager(v0.6 and later).
import py7zr

with py7zr.SevenZipFile('sample.7z', mode='r') as z:
z.extractall()

with py7zr.SevenZipFile('target.7z', 'w') as z:
z.writeall('./base_dir')
py7zr also supports extraction of single or selected files by ‘extract(targets=[‘file path’])’.
Note: if you specify only a file but not a parent directory, it will fail.
import py7zr
import re

filter_pattern = re.compile(r'<your/target/file_and_directories/regex/expression>')
with py7zr.SevenZipFile('archive.7z', 'r') as archive:
allfiles = archive.getnames()
selective_files = [f for f in allfiles if filter_pattern.match(f)]
archive.extract(targets=selective_files)
py7zr support an extraction of password protected archive.(v0.6 and later)
import py7zr

with py7zr.SevenZipFile('encrypted.7z', mode='r', password='secret') as z:
z.extractall()


Compression/Encryption
Here is a code snippet how to produce archive.
import py7zr

with py7zr.SevenZipFile('target.7z', 'w') as archive:
archive.writeall('/path/to/base_dir', 'base')
To create encrypted archive, please pass a password.
import py7zr

with py7zr.SevenZipFile('target.7z', 'w', password='secret') as archive:
archive.writeall('/path/to/base_dir', 'base')
To create archive with algorithms such as zstandard, you can call with custom filter.
import py7zr

my_filters = [{"id": py7zr.FILTER_ZSTD}]
another_filters = [{"id": py7zr.FILTER_ARM}, {"id": py7zr.FILTER_LZMA2, "preset": 7}]
with py7zr.SevenZipFile('target.7z', 'w', filters=my_filters) as archive:
archive.writeall('/path/to/base_dir', 'base')



shutil helper
py7zr also support shutil interface.
from py7zr import pack_7zarchive, unpack_7zarchive
import shutil

# register file format at first.
shutil.register_archive_format('7zip', pack_7zarchive, description='7zip archive')
shutil.register_unpack_format('7zip', ['.7z'], unpack_7zarchive)

# extraction
shutil.unpack_archive('test.7z', '/tmp')

# compression
shutil.make_archive('target', '7zip', 'src')


Requirements
py7zr uses a python3 standard lzma module for extraction and compression.
The standard lzma module uses liblzma that support core compression algorithm of 7zip.
Minimum required version is Python 3.8.
py7zr tested on Linux, macOS, Windows and Ubuntu aarch64.
It hopefully works on M1 Mac too.
Recommended versions are:

CPython 3.8.0 and later.
PyPy3.8-7.3.8 and later.

Following fixes are included in these versions, and it is not fixed on python3.6.

BPO-21872: LZMA library sometimes fails to decompress a file
PyPy3-3090: lzma.LZMADecomporessor.decompress does not respect max_length
PyPy3-3242: ‘_lzma_cffi’ has no function named ‘lzma_stream_encoder’

Following improvements are included in CPython 3.10

BPO-41486: Faster bz2/lzma/zlib via new output buffering



Dependencies
There are several dependencies to support algorithms and CLI expressions.


Package
Purpose



PyCryptodomex
7zAES encryption

PyZstd
ZStandard compression

PyPPMd
PPMd compression

Brotli
Brotli compression (CPython)

BrotliCFFI
Brotli compression (PyPy)

inflate64
Enhanced deflate compression

pybcj
BCJ filters

multivolumefile
Multi-volume archive read/write

texttable
CLI formatter





Performance
You can find a compression and decompression benchmark results at
[Github issue](https://github.com/miurahr/py7zr/issues/297) and [wiki page](https://github.com/miurahr/py7zr/wiki/Benchmarks)
py7zr works well, but slower than 7-zip and p7zip C/C++ implementation by several reasons.
When compression/decompression speed is important, it is recommended to use these
alternatives through subprocess.run python interface.
py7zr consumes some memory to decompress and compress data. It requires about 300MiB - 700MiB free memory to work well at least.


Use Cases

aqtinstall Another (unofficial) Qt (aqt) CLI Installer on multi-platforms.
PreNLP Preprocessing Library for Natural Language Processing
mlox a tool for sorting and analyzing Morrowind plugin load order



Security
Please find a Security Policy of this project.
Version 0.20.0, 0.19.0, 0.18.10 or before has a vulnerability for path traversal attack.
Details are on “CVE-2022-44900: path traversal vulnerability in py7zr” disclose article .
Affected versions are vulnerable to Directory Traversal due to insufficient checks in the ‘py7zr.py’ and ‘helpers.py’ files
You are recommend to update immediately to version 0.20.2 or later
I really appreciate Mr. Matteo Cosentino for notification and corporation on security improvement.


License

Copyright (C) 2019-2024 Hiroshi Miura
pylzma Copyright (c) 2004-2015 by Joachim Bauch
7-Zip Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov
LZMA SDK Copyright (C) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA