zipfile

How to create a zip archive?

With the builtin module zipfile, you can add both existing files and strings to a zip file. If you are adding strings you need to specify the file name it is written to. When you extract files to a folder, the output folder is automatically created.

import zipfile

z = zipfile.ZipFile('archive.zip', 'w')
z.write('myfile.txt')                   # already existing file
z.writestr('test.txt', 'Hello World')   # string to new file
z.close()

How to read a zip archive?

List the contents of a zip file:

z = zipfile.ZipFile('archive.zip')
print(z.namelist())

Extract a file to a new folder:

print(z.extract('test.txt', 'myfolder'))
z.close()

.. seealso::

   `Documentation of the zipfile module <https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html>`__