unzipping a zipx file

[John Gordon]

In <kks2mi$54d$1 at reader1.panix.com> John Gordon <gordon at panix.com> writes:

> In <mailman.834.1366394500.3114.python-list at python.org> "b_erickson1" <brian at dashley.net> writes:

> >             ozFile = open(filename,'w')
> >             ozFile.write(zFile.read(filename))
> >             ozFile.close()

> Perhaps you want to use zFile.extract() instead of zFile.read()?

No, that's not it.  Your code should work.

You said the output file 'looks encrypted'.  Is the source zip file
encrypted?

Is the source text file something other than plain ASCII?

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