ImportError: No module named 'zipFile'

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I am running python on windows in sublime text. When i wanted to work with the zipfile module I get this error ImportError: No module named 'ZipFile'. I tried changing the name to zipfile from Zipfile with no success. I looked at my pythonpath variable it does show the location of the lib folder where zipfile.py is located. I am unsure of what is going wrong. Any help or clue with what is going on is appreciated.

import urllib.request
import ZipFile
import StringIO

url = 'some_url'
z = ZipFile(StringIO.StringIO(urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()))
z.extractall()

Even running in python ide gives me the same error

see @falstru's answer below - you need to call `zipfile.ZipFile(...)` — MattDMo, Sep 26 '14 at 15:44

falsetru · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-26T15:49:51.753

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The name of the module is zipfile. Also you need to use io.BytesIO. (There's no StringIO module in Python 3.x; I guesses you use Python 3 .x because of urllib.request)

import urllib.request
import zipfile
from io import BytesIO

url = 'some_url'
z = zipfile.ZipFile(BytesIO(urllib.request.urlopen(url).read()))
z.extractall()

edited Sep 26 '14 at 15:49

answered Sep 26 '14 at 15:43

falsetru

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btw, sublime text 3 uses python 3.3 only. – simonzack Sep 26 '14 at 15:54
Thanks falsetru. I realized I made a mistake calling module name in the code instead of the import. – Darshan Sep 26 '14 at 16:05
Yes you are correct @simonzack. Though I am using python 3.4 on Anaconda package for my venture into python :) – Darshan Sep 26 '14 at 16:07
@Darshan Well it does work mostly with my python 3.4, so I think it'll work in your case too. – simonzack Sep 26 '14 at 16:09

ImportError: No module named 'zipFile'

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