import zipfile
import zipfile
| Task | Method | Description | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | zip_ref.extractall(path) | Extracts entire archive to path . | | Extract One | zip_ref.extract(member, path) | Extracts member file to path . | | List Files | zip_ref.namelist() | Returns a list of filenames strings. | | Read Bytes | zip_ref.read(member) | Returns file content as bytes (no disk write). | | Metadata | zip_ref.infolist() | Returns list of ZipInfo objects with sizes. | zipfile extract
def safe_extract(zip_path, extract_path): with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'r') as zip_ref: for member in zip_ref.namelist(): # Resolve the absolute path member_path = os.path.join(extract_path, member) abs_path = os.path.abspath(member_path)
: Accesses a single file's content as a file-like object without extracting it to the disk first. Implementation Example import zipfile import zipfile | Task | Method
The most common task is to extract every file from an archive to a specific directory.
Sometimes you want to process the data inside a ZIP file (e.g., reading a CSV or JSON config) without actually saving the file to the hard drive. This is faster and cleaner for temporary processing. | | Read Bytes | zip_ref
import zipfile
with zipfile.ZipFile('your_file.zip', 'r') as zip_ref: for file_info in zip_ref.infolist(): print(f"file_info.filename - file_info.file_size bytes")
import zipfile
