unziping a file in python..

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:00:54 -0500, David Lyon wrote:

> It might seem a simple question.. but how does one programmaticaly unzip
> a file in python?


A quick and dirty solution would be something like this:

zf = zipfile.ZipFile('Archive.zip')
for name in zf.namelist():
    open(name, 'w').write(zf.read(name))




-- 
Steven