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UnGzip .tgz to get a .tar

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A .tgz is simply a TAR archive compressed using GZip. It is also commonly referred to as a .tar.gz. Chilkat GZip can be used to ungzip to get an uncompressed .tar.

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CkPython
import chilkat

success = False

gzip = chilkat.CkGzip()

success = gzip.UncompressFile("qa_data/tar/test.tgz","qa_output/test.tar")
if (success != True):
    print(gzip.lastErrorText())
else:
    print("success.")