import os
import tarfile
extractPath = "/bin/py"
#Open Tar file
tFile = tarfile.open("files.tar", 'r')
#Extract py files in tar
for f in tFile.getnames():
if f.endswith("py"):
print "Extracting %s" % f
tFile.extract(f, extractPath)
else:
print "%s is not a Python file." % f
tFile.close()