How To Unpack Xz File With Python Which Contains Only Data But No Filename?

I have a file, which I can decompress under linux using the following command: unxz < file.xz > file.txt How can I do the same using python? If I use python3 and the tarfile

Solution 1:

The tarfile module is only for... err... tar files. What you have here is not one.

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XZ support is available in Python 3.3's LZMA module. In Python 2.x, you need backports.lzma.

try:
    import lzma
except ImportError:
    from backports import lzma

print lzma.open('file.xz').read()