Patch #1043890: tarfile: add extractall() method.
diff --git a/Lib/tarfile.py b/Lib/tarfile.py
index 06f3ab3..8bce5d0 100644
--- a/Lib/tarfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tarfile.py
@@ -1321,6 +1321,47 @@
self.members.append(tarinfo)
+ def extractall(self, path=".", members=None):
+ """Extract all members from the archive to the current working
+ directory and set owner, modification time and permissions on
+ directories afterwards. `path' specifies a different directory
+ to extract to. `members' is optional and must be a subset of the
+ list returned by getmembers().
+ """
+ directories = []
+
+ if members is None:
+ members = self
+
+ for tarinfo in members:
+ if tarinfo.isdir():
+ # Extract directory with a safe mode, so that
+ # all files below can be extracted as well.
+ try:
+ os.makedirs(os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name), 0777)
+ except EnvironmentError:
+ pass
+ directories.append(tarinfo)
+ else:
+ self.extract(tarinfo, path)
+
+ # Reverse sort directories.
+ directories.sort(lambda a, b: cmp(a.name, b.name))
+ directories.reverse()
+
+ # Set correct owner, mtime and filemode on directories.
+ for tarinfo in directories:
+ path = os.path.join(path, tarinfo.name)
+ try:
+ self.chown(tarinfo, path)
+ self.utime(tarinfo, path)
+ self.chmod(tarinfo, path)
+ except ExtractError, e:
+ if self.errorlevel > 1:
+ raise
+ else:
+ self._dbg(1, "tarfile: %s" % e)
+
def extract(self, member, path=""):
"""Extract a member from the archive to the current working directory,
using its full name. Its file information is extracted as accurately