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

There's a cool solution here that overrides the tarfile module as a drop-in replacement and lets you specify a callback to update.

https://github.com/thomaspurchas/tarfile-Progress-Reporter/

updated based on comment