Python standard-library module provides tools to create, read, write, append, and list a ZIP file.
Questions tagged [python-zipfile]
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How do I know that a .npz file was compressed or not?
Given a .npz file from np.savez or np.savez_compressed, when it got loaded by np.load, is there any way to check whether the file was compressed or not?
I tried to look though docs and GitHub. It didn't tell me anything but how the file is…

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What is the problem with my resizing .img files?
Please note that I'm doing my first programming project and I'm inexperienced. It's a simple project, but I'm having trouble with one problem: the result is always the same image. I've checked the file names and they are correct, but the picture is…

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How to zip files that ends with certain extension
I want to get all files in a directory (I reached it after doing several for loops - hence fourth.path) that ends with .npy or with csv and then zip those files.
My code is running putting one file only in the zip file. What am I doing wrong?
I…

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Python - Creating Zip in stream that exceeds RAM
I'm trying to create a zip file on the fly of a directory and return it to the user over a Flask App. The below works great for smaller directories but I'd also like to achieve this with large directories full of images (>20GB).
def return_zip():
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How to pack several DataFrames into one file using zipfile
I have a few DataFrames that I need to zip to one file.
This is my code:
df_list = [ojcowskieDF,mateczneDF]
with zipfile.ZipFile('final.zip', 'w') as zipF:
for file in df_list:
zipF.write(file, compress_type=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
But I…

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How to load a zip file with pyscript and save into the virtual file system
I am trying to load a zip file and save it in the virtual file system for further processing with pyscript. In this example, I aim to open it and list its content.
As far as I got:
See the self standing html code below, adapted from tutorials (with…

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Python zipfile.ZipFile zips a corrupt file
I have a Django view which users can call to zip files at my local server. It uses zipfile.ZipFile to compresses multiple files into a single zip as follows:
with ZipFile(my_dir + 'folder.zip', 'w') as zipObj:
zipObj.write(my_dir +…

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ValueError: write() requires mode 'w', 'x', or 'a' in Python zipfile
I am trying to open a specific file in the archive and then write some content to it. I am using the zipfile.open() function to get access to the file:
import zipfile
my_zip = zipfile.ZipFile('D:\\files\\acrhive.zip')
with…

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Zipfile python module bytesize difference
I'm using zipfile module for python to extract a zipfile I retrieved from the internet using
urllib.urlretrieve()
the files in the zip file are patch files created by bsdiff, however when I let python extract the zip file and try to use bspatch it…

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ZipFile: Check for correct Password
I have this code to unzip a zip file that is encrypted with a password:
import zipfile
def main(pswd):
file_name = 'somefile.zip'
with zipfile.ZipFile(file_name) as file:
return file.extractall(pwd = bytes(pswd,…

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How to avoid subfolders creation while zipping files?
I am trying to zip the files from the list localpath_list in to one zip file `reports.zip.
It works as expected, but when I extract the reports.zip file, there are folders created inside it.
i.e all the .xls files are under files/sample/.
what I…

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How to allow extraction of all files even the ones with same name?
I'm struggling with unzip process with this code:
I have two separated .zip files and each has the same file name and file type, but when I execute this code only appears one file extracted, instead of two.
This is the result:
Code:
import os,…

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How to unzip specific subfolders of a zip archive with Python zipfile
I want to unzip particular subfolders from a list of zip archives using the zipfile module.
Paths to archives are stored in a csv file with concatenated subfolders, like…

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Python Zipfile compression method is not supported
The times when this worked were when I used ZIPCrypto compression. It's with AES-256 that it fails. How to get around this please?
I previously had success using the following Python code to open a password protected .zip file created with…

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PermissionError when attempting to open directory with zipfile and pathlib modules
I'm trying to create a zip file using pathlib, but it's giving me a permission error. Look at the code:
from pathlib import Path
from zipfile import *
import os
from datetime import datetime
time = str(datetime.now())
day = int(time.split('…

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