zipfile — Easy Examples

Read and write ZIP archives

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Getting started with zipfile

Basic import and usage of the zipfile module.

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.

Common zipfile operations

Frequently used functions from the zipfile module.

python
# More zipfile examples
import zipfile

print(f"zipfile module loaded successfully")
print(f"Location: {zipfile.__name__}")
print(f"Has {len(dir(zipfile))} attributes")

These are the most commonly used features of the zipfile module.

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