self extracting zipefile (windows) and (standard module) zipefile

[Werner]

On 29 Aug., 15:23, kyoso... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 29, 6:53 am, Werner <Werner.Me... at fujitsu-siemens.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > I try to read (and extract) some "self extracting" zipefiles on a
> > Windows system. The standard module zipefile seems not to be able to
> > handle this.
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> > >>> fName = r"C:\tmp\mySelfExtratingFile.exe"
> > >>> import zipfile
> > >>> zipefile.is_zipfile(fName))
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> > False
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> > Is there a wrapper or has some one experience with other libaries to
> > extract those files?
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> > Thanks in advance
> > Werner
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> Since it's an executable, why not just use the subprocess module?
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> I did find this set of scripts, but I don't know if they will help:http://www.example-code.com/python/zip.asp
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> I did find how to extract via the command line, which you could use in
> conjunction with the subprocess module:http://help.globalscape.com/help/cutezip2/Creating_and_extracting_arc...
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thank you for answer. I found, that WinZip aund 7-ZIP may handle my
files (I'm not shure, if it's really zip...) So, I thing I try the 7-
zip command line tool (but I'd prefered a Python buildin version)

Werner