Extract tar into memory, remove the original tar file and save files to the same disk if there is no space for usual extraction

extract_tar_to_ram_remove.py

import os
import tarfile
from tqdm.auto import tqdm

tar_file = "/data/images.tar.gz"
extract_to = "/data/"

files = {}

with tarfile.open(tar_file, "r:gz") as file:
    for member in tqdm(file):
        if member.isfile():
            files[member.name] = file.extractfile(member.name).read()

os.unlink(tar_file)

for name, cnt in tqdm(files.items()):
    f_name = os.path.join(extract_to, name)
    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(f_name), exist_ok=True)
    with open(f_name, 'wb') as f:
        f.write(cnt)