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Marconi
Marconi

Reputation: 3651

How to retrieve dirs in a zipfile using python?

How do I traverse the contents of a zip file in python without having to extract them?

If extracting is the only way, is it efficient if I create a unique temp folder and extract them there then traverse and remove the temp folder afterwards?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1451

Answers (1)

Adam Rosenfield
Adam Rosenfield

Reputation: 400174

Use the namelist() method of the ZipFile class to get a list of all of the filenames in the archive without having to extract them. For example:

import zipfile

myzip = zipfile.ZipFile('myzip.zip', 'r')
filenames = myzip.namelist()
# Do something with filenames

Upvotes: 3

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