def untar_file(filename, location):
    ensure_dir(location)
    if filename.lower().endswith('.gz') or filename.lower().endswith('.tgz'):
        mode = 'r:gz'
    elif filename.lower().endswith(BZ2_EXTENSIONS):
        mode = 'r:bz2'
    elif filename.lower().endswith('.tar'):
        mode = 'r'
    else:
        logger.warning(
            'Cannot determine compression type for file %s', filename,
        )
        mode = 'r:*'
    tar = tarfile.open(filename, mode)
    try:
        # note: python<=2.5 doesn't seem to know about pax headers, filter them
        leading = has_leading_dir([
            member.name for member in tar.getmembers()
            if member.name != 'pax_global_header'
        ])
        for member in tar.getmembers():
            fn = member.name
            if fn == 'pax_global_header':
                continue
            if leading:
                fn = split_leading_dir(fn)[1]
            path = os.path.join(location, fn)
            if member.isdir():
                ensure_dir(path)
            elif member.issym():
                try:
                    tar._extract_member(member, path)
                except Exception as exc:
                    # Some corrupt tar files seem to produce this
                    # (specifically bad symlinks)
                    logger.warning(
                        'In the tar file %s the member %s is invalid: %s',
                        filename, member.name, exc,
                    )
                    continue
            else:
                try:
                    fp = tar.extractfile(member)
                except (KeyError, AttributeError) as exc:
                    # Some corrupt tar files seem to produce this
                    # (specifically bad symlinks)
                    logger.warning(
                        'In the tar file %s the member %s is invalid: %s',
                        filename, member.name, exc,
                    )
                    continue
                ensure_dir(os.path.dirname(path))
                destfp = open(path, 'wb')
                try:
                    shutil.copyfileobj(fp, destfp)
                finally:
                    destfp.close()
                fp.close()
                # member have any execute permissions for user/group/world?
                if member.mode & 0o111:
                    # make dest file have execute for user/group/world
                    # no-op on windows per python docs
                    os.chmod(path, (0o777 - current_umask() | 0o111))
    finally:
        tar.close()
Untar the file (with path `filename`) to the destination `location`.
dataset/ETHPy150Open anzev/hedwig/build/pip/pip/utils/__init__.py/untar_file