Extracting file from zip archive in Python 2.6.1

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Brandon Taylor wrote:
 > On Feb 3, 1:16 pm, Brandon Taylor <btaylordes... at gmail.com> wrote:
 >> On Feb 3, 9:45 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>> En Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:31:24 -0200, Brandon Taylor
 >>> <btaylordes... at gmail.com> escribió:
 >>>> I'm having an issue specifying the path for extracting files from
 >>>> a .zip archive. In my method, I have:
 >>>> zip_file.extract(zip_name + '/' + thumbnail_image, thumbnail_path)
 >>>> What is happening is that the extract method is creating a folder with
 >>>> the name of 'zip_name' and extracting the files to it. Example:
 >>> extract will create all directories in member name. Use open instead:
 >>> with zip_file.open(zip_name + '/' + thumbnail_image) as source:
 >>>    with open(os.path.join(thumbnail_path, thumbnail_image), "wb") 
as target:
 >>>      shutil.copyfileobj(source, target)
 >>> (untested)
 >>> --
 >>> Gabriel Genellina
 >> Hi Gabriel,
 >>
 >> Thank you for the code sample. I figured I was going to have to use
 >> 'open', but I completely forgot about the 'with' statement. I was
 >> trying to figure out how to get access to the file object in the zip
 >> without having to loop over all of the items, and 'with' will allow me
 >> to do just that.
 >>
 >> I'll give it a shot when I get home this evening and post my results.
 >>
 >> Kind regards,
 >> Brandon
 >
 > Ok, the first thing I needed to do was add:
 >
 > from __future__ import with_statement at the beginning of my file
 >
 > but:
 >
 > with zip_file.open(zip_name + '/' + thumbnail_image) as source:
 >                     with open(os.path.join(thumbnail_path,
 > thumbnail_image), 'wb') as target:
 >                         shutil.copyfileobj(source, target)
 >
 > Returns an error on the first line:
 >
 > ZipExtFile instance has no attribute '__exit__'
 >
 > Googling this error message is turning up nothing, and there's no
 > mention of the exception in the docs. Any thoughts?
 >
The 'with' statement relies on the object having __enter__ and __exit__
methods. It looks like the object returned by zip_file.open() doesn't
have them.