#!/usr/local/bin/python from sys import * # system interfaces from textpak1 import marker # "textpak1.py" marker constant mlen = len(marker) def unpack_file(name): try: # catch errors here input = open(name, 'r') unpack_stream(input) except: import sys print 'unpack error!', sys.exc_type, sys.exc_value def unpack_stream(input, output=stdout): while 1: line = input.readline() if not line: # until end-of-file break # copy real lines elif line[:mlen] != marker: # else, create file output.write(line) else: name = line[mlen:-1] print 'creating:', name output = open(name, 'w') if __name__ == '__main__': if len(argv) == 2: unpack_file(argv[1]) else: print 'usage: unpack filename'; exit(1)