Extracting a 7-zip file "silently" - command line option

Question

I want to extract a 7-zip archive in a python script. It works fine except that it spits out the extraction details (which is huge in my case).

Is there a way to avoid this verbose info while extraction? I did not find any "silent" command line option to 7z.

My command is

7z.exe -o some_dir x some_archive.7z

Thanks.

Answer 1

One possibility would be to spawn the child process with popen, so its output will come back to the parent to be processed/displayed (if desired) or else completely ignored (create your popen object with stdout=PIPE and stderr=PIPE to be able to retrieve the output from the child).