code: def put(self, destination):
          
          target = get_target_path(destination, self.dirname)
          valid_paths = (self.dirname, './%s' % self.dirname)
  
          with tarfile.open(self.archive_path, 'r:*') as tf:
              members = []
              for tarinfo in tf:
                  # Get only files under the directory `self.dirname`
                  pathsplit = os.path.normpath(tarinfo.path).split(os.sep)
                  if pathsplit[0] not in valid_paths:
                      print('WARNING: skipped file "%s" in archive; not in directory "%s"' %
                            (tarinfo.path, self.dirname))
                      continue
                  if len(pathsplit) == 1:
                      continue
                  tarinfo.name = os.path.join(*pathsplit[1:])
                  members.append(tarinfo)
  
              if not members:
                  raise ValueError("No files under path directory '%s' in this tarfile")
  
              tf.extractall(target, members)
docs: Copy the referenced directory to this path
  
          Note:
              This ignores anything not in the desired directory, given by ``self.dirname``.
  
          Args:
              destination (str): path to put this directory (which must NOT already exist)
  
          References:
              https://stackoverflow.com/a/8261083/1958900