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
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 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
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!
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.
The easiest way is to use shutil.make_archive. It supports both zip and tar formats. import shutil shutil.make_archive(output_filename, ‘zip’, dir_name) If you need to do something more complicated than zipping the whole directory (such as skipping certain files), then you’ll need to dig into the zipfile module as others have suggested.