[Tutor] Re: Extracting from password protected zipfiles

[Charlie Clark]

On 2003-05-15 at 18:00:06 [+0200], tutor-request@python.org wrote:
> The version of unzip on my system (v. 5.41) has a `-P' option where you 
> can specify a password; the man page warns that using this option isn't 
> secure.
> 
> If the zipfile module doesn't accept passwords when opening a zipped 
> file, then could you use an os.exec*() call and include the password as 
> an argument to unzip?

I found 5.41 so I was able to use that. But the corresponding version of 
zip doesn't support encryption. Maybe I'll have a look at the source and 
see whether it's doable. Would be nice to have it.

Charlie