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This is Python module for RAR archive reading. The interface is made as zipfile
like as possible. Licensed under ISC license.

Features:

 * Supports both RAR3 and RAR5 format archives.
 * Supports multi volume archives.
 * Supports Unicode filenames.
 * Supports password-protected archives.
 * Supports archive and file comments.
 * Archive parsing and non-compressed files are handled in pure Python code.
 * Compressed files are extracted by executing external tool: either unrar from
   RARLAB or bsdtar from libarchive.
 * Works with both Python 2.7 and 3.x.