https://rarfile.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api.html

import rarfile
rf = rarfile.RarFile('myarchive.rar')
for f in rf.infolist():
    print f.filename, f.file_size
    if f.filename == 'README':
        print(rf.read(f))

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'RarFile'

import rarfile
rf = rarfile.RarFile('subprocess.rar')
for f in rf.infolist():
    print f.filename, f.file_size

subprocess 3925105

C:\Python33\Module\rarfile-2.6>python setup.py install
running install
running build
running build_py
running install_lib
running install_egg_info
Removing C:\Python33\Lib\site-packages\rarfile-2.6-py3.3.egg-info
Writing C:\Python33\Lib\site-packages\rarfile-2.6-py3.3.egg-info

import rarfile
with rarfile.RarFile('0e61058f7dd1b101684dab66742885b3.rar') as rf:
    with rf.open('0e61058f7dd1b101684dab66742885b3') as f:
        for ln in f:
            print(ln.strip())

> "Python " temp.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "temp.py", line 9, in <module>
    with rarfile.RarFile('0e61058f7dd1b101684dab66742885b3.rar') as rf:
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\rarfile.py", line 493, in __init__
    self._parse()
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\rarfile.py", line 734, in _parse
    self._parse_real()
  File "C:\Python33\lib\site-packages\rarfile.py", line 745, in _parse_real
    raise NotRarFile("Not a Rar archive: "+self.rarfile)
rarfile.NotRarFile: Not a Rar archive: 0e61058f7dd1b101684dab66742885b3.rar