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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""Usage:
+  7zx.py [--help | options] <zipfiles>...
+
+Options:
+  -h, --help     Print this help and exit
+  -v, --version  Print version and exit
+  -c, --compressed       Use compressed (instead of uncompressed) file sizes
+  -y, --yes      Assume yes to all queries (for extraction)
+  -D=<level>, --debug=<level>
+                 Print various types of debugging information. Choices:
+                         CRITICAL|FATAL
+                         ERROR
+                         WARN(ING)
+                         [default: INFO]
+                         DEBUG
+                         NOTSET
+  -d, --debug-trace      Print lots of debugging information (-D NOTSET)
+"""
+from __future__ import print_function
+from docopt import docopt
+import logging as log
+import subprocess
+import re
+from tqdm import tqdm
+__author__ = "Casper da Costa-Luis <casper.dcl@physics.org>"
+__licence__ = "MPLv2.0"
+__version__ = "0.0.0"
+__license__ = __licence__
+
+
+RE_SCN = re.compile("([0-9]+)\s+([0-9]+)\s+(.*)$", flags=re.M)
+
+
+def main():
+    args = docopt(__doc__, version=__version__)
+    if args.pop('--debug-trace', False):
+        args['--debug'] = "NOTSET"
+    log.basicConfig(level=getattr(log, args['--debug'], log.INFO),
+                    format='%(levelname)s: %(message)s')
+    log.debug(args)
+
+    # Get compressed sizes
+    zips = {}
+    for fn in args['<zipfiles>']:
+        info = subprocess.check_output(["7z", "l", fn]).strip()
+        finfo = RE_SCN.findall(info)
+
+        # builtin test: last line should be total sizes
+        log.debug(finfo)
+        totals = map(int, finfo[-1][:2])
+        # log.debug(totals)
+        for s in range(2):
+            assert(sum(map(int, (inf[s] for inf in finfo[:-1]))) == totals[s])
+        fcomp = dict((n, int(c if args['--compressed'] else u))
+                     for (u, c, n) in finfo[:-1])
+        # log.debug(fcomp)
+        zips[fn] = fcomp
+
+    # Extract
+    cmd7zx = ["7z", "x", "-bd"]
+    if args['--yes']:
+        cmd7zx += ["-y"]
+    log.info("Extracting from {:d} file(s)".format(len(zips)))
+    with tqdm(total=sum(s for fcomp in zips.values()
+                        for (_, s) in fcomp.items()),
+              unit="B", unit_scale=True) as t:
+        for fn, fcomp in zips.items():
+            ex = subprocess.Popen(cmd7zx + [fn],
+                                  stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
+                                  stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
+            for l_raw in ex.stdout:
+                l = l_raw.strip()
+                if l.startswith("Extracting"):
+                    exname = l.lstrip("Extracting").lstrip()
+                    t.update(fcomp.get(exname, 0))
+                # elif l:
+                #     if not any(l.startswith(i) for i in
+                #                ("7-Zip ",
+                #                 "p7zip Version ",
+                #                 "Processing archive: ",
+                #                 "Everything is Ok",
+                #                 "Folders: ",
+                #                 "Files: ",
+                #                 "Size: ",
+                #                 "Compressed: ")):
+                #         t.write(l)
+            ex.wait()
+main.__doc__ = __doc__
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()