zipfile

Stdlib — CompressionPython 2.0+Intermediate

Read and write ZIP archives

Quick Info

Documentation
Official Docs
Python Version
2.0+
Dependencies
None — Python Standard Library
Install
Included with Python

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Quick Example

python
import zipfile
from io import BytesIO

# Create zip in memory
buf = BytesIO()
with zipfile.ZipFile(buf, "w") as zf:
    zf.writestr("hello.txt", "Hello, World!")
    zf.writestr("data.txt", "Some data here")

# Read zip
buf.seek(0)
with zipfile.ZipFile(buf, "r") as zf:
    print(zf.namelist())
    print(zf.read("hello.txt"))

The zipfile module is part of Python's standard library. Read and write ZIP archives.

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Tags

stdlibcompressionarchive