Note: Starting with python 2.7.4, this is a non-issue for ZIP archives. Details at the bottom of the answer. This answer focuses on tar archives. To figure out where a path really points to, use os.path.abspath() (but note the caveat about symlinks as path components). If you normalize a path from your zipfile with abspath … Read more
The zipfile.write() method takes an optional arcname argument that specifies what the name of the file should be inside the zipfile. You can use this to strip off the path to src at the beginning. Here I use os.path.abspath() to make sure that both src and the filename returned by os.walk() have a common prefix. … Read more
I created a simple library to create a password encrypted zip file in python. – here import pyminizip compression_level = 5 # 1-9 pyminizip.compress(“src.txt”, “dst.zip”, “password”, compression_level) The library requires zlib. I have checked that the file can be extracted in WINDOWS/MAC.
This seems to work (thanks Evan, putting it here so the line is in context): buffer = “path/filename.zip” # zip filename to write (or file-like object) name = “folder/data.txt” # name of file inside zip bytes = “blah blah blah” # contents of file inside zip zip = zipfile.ZipFile(buffer, “w”, zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) info = zipfile.ZipInfo(name) info.external_attr … Read more
This opens file handles of members of the zip archive, extracts the filename and copies it to a target file (that’s how ZipFile.extract works, without taking care of subdirectories). import os import shutil import zipfile my_dir = r”D:\Download” my_zip = r”D:\Download\my_file.zip” with zipfile.ZipFile(my_zip) as zip_file: for member in zip_file.namelist(): filename = os.path.basename(member) # skip directories … Read more
extractall extracts to the file system, so you won’t get what you want. To extract a file in memory, use the ZipFile.read() method. If you really need the full content in memory, you could do something like: def extract_zip(input_zip): input_zip=ZipFile(input_zip) return {name: input_zip.read(name) for name in input_zip.namelist()}
This is because ZipFile requires you to specify the compression method. If you don’t specify it, it assumes the compression method to be zipfile.ZIP_STORED, which only stores the files without compressing them. You need to specify the method to be zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED. You will need to have the zlib module installed for this (it is usually … Read more
The zipfile write() method supports an extra argument (arcname) which is the archive name to be stored in the zip file, so you would only need to change your code with: from os.path import basename … zip.write(first_path, basename(first_path)) zip.write(second_path, basename(second_path)) zip.close() When you have some spare time reading the documentation for zipfile will be helpful.
What you need is ZipFile.namelist() that will give you a list of all the contents of the archive, you can then do a zip.open(‘filename_you_discover’) to get the contents of that file.
import zipfile with zipfile.ZipFile(path_to_zip_file, ‘r’) as zip_ref: zip_ref.extractall(directory_to_extract_to) That’s pretty much it!