snippet for extracting a tar (or .tar.gz file)

tar_util.py

import os
import tarfile

def extract_tar_gz_file(in_fpath: str, out_dir: str):
    """
    Extract a zipped tar archive

    :param in_fpath: the path to the .tar.gz file
    :param out_dir: the path of the extracted content
    """
    tar = tarfile.open(os.path.expanduser(in_fpath))
    for member, name in zip(tar.getmembers(), tar.getnames()):
        fobj = tar.extractfile(member)
        if fobj is not None:
            dirname = os.path.dirname(name)
            _out_dir = os.path.join(out_dir, dirname)
            if not os.path.isdir(_out_dir):
                os.makedirs(_out_dir, exist_ok=True)
            _out_fpath = os.path.join(_out_dir, os.path.basename(name))
            log.info('extract {}'.format(name))

            with open(_out_fpath, 'wb') as _fobj:
                _fobj.write(fobj.read())