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J01
J01

Reputation: 145

FileNotFoundError with filepath that has whitespaces using ZipFile extract

I have a zip file with this structure:

Report 
│
└───folder1
│   │
│   └───subfolder1
|       |
│       │file 1 2022.txt
│   
└───folder2
    │   file2.txt

And their relative file paths are as follows: Report/folder1 / subfolder1 / file 1 2022.txt and Report/folder2/file2.txt

I tried to extract the zip file to another destination using the following code:

with ZipFile(attachment_filepath, 'r') as z:
    z.extractall('Destination')

However, it gives me a FileNotFoundError: [Winerror 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'C:\\Users\\myname\\Desktop\\Report\\folder1 \\ subfolder1 '

I can extract just file2.txt without any problems but trying to extract file 1 2022.txt gives me that error,presumably due to all the extra whitespaces

Upvotes: 1

Views: 189

Answers (1)

tdelaney
tdelaney

Reputation: 77347

"folder1 " (note the space) isn't the same as "folder1" (no space). When passing a path, it has to be the exact path. You can't add whitespace between path separators because the file system will assume you want a path name with spaces. Whatever put those spaces into the path is the problem.

Upvotes: 1

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