Python tarfile progress output?

Question

I\'m using the following code to extract a tar file:

import tarfile
tar = tarfile.open(\"sample.tar.gz\")
tar.extractall()
tar.close()

However,

Answer 1

You can specify the members parameter in extractall()

with tarfile.open(, 'r') as tarball:
   tarball.extractall(path=, members = track_progress(tarball))

def track_progress(members):
   for member in members:
      # this will be the current file being extracted
      yield member

member are TarInfo objects, see all available functions and properties here