How to upload ZipFile to Dropbox using Python?

Asked Apr 24 '17 at 04:46

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I am trying to upload a .zip file to Dropbox using the Dropbox API for python. But this method seems to fail. Can anyone please help me with this?

            if os.path.exists(zip_name):
                with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_name,'r') as zf:
                    self.auth_client.put_file('/', zf, overwrite=True)
                    zf.close()

Error Message:

KeyError: 'There is no item named 8192 in the archive'

This error seems to propagate from the put_file method.

edited May 02 '22 at 14:08

Dharman

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asked Apr 24 '17 at 04:46

Ashwin Joshi

Can you post the full stack trace? – tdelaney Apr 24 '17 at 04:51
Don't you just want a regular `with open(zip_name, 'rb') as zf:`? Why open the zipfile? – tdelaney Apr 24 '17 at 04:53
@tdelaney, i tried the normal open file, doesn't work. – Ashwin Joshi Apr 24 '17 at 05:04
Where does it fail? What is the stack trace? I didn't see anything in the dropbox docs about opening using ZipFile and the `zf` object isn't an open file. The dropbox docs at https://www.dropbox.com/developers-v1/core/docs/python# say its just a file open in "rb" mode. – tdelaney Apr 24 '17 at 05:09
It fails in the innermost `data.readblock()` method which dropbox uses from requests or some url library. – Ashwin Joshi Apr 24 '17 at 05:16
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I think the `open(filename,'rb')` worked. Thanks @tdelaney :-) – Ashwin Joshi Apr 24 '17 at 05:18

How to upload ZipFile to Dropbox using Python?

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