Tarfile in Python: Can I untar more efficiently by extracting only some of the data?

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00:00 Question
02:04 Accepted answer (Score 8)
03:02 Answer 2 (Score 11)
04:35 Thank you

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2606...

Accepted answer links:
[a header]: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/h...
[for some compression formats works, but for others requires you to decompress everything in between]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4299...
[_Stream]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/m...

Answer 2 links:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/tarfil...

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