After searching on Google, the ASPN Cookbook and the Vaults of Parnassus, I was unable to find a solution to simply extract a zipfile. So I wrote one and uploaded it to the ASPN cookbook site. You can find the source here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python Happy extracting. :) -- Doug Tolton (format t "~a@~a~a.~a" "dtolton" "ya" "hoo" "com")