zip - How to unzip a file with Python 2.4?

Question

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to unzip a zip file with 2.4. extract() is not included in 2.4. I'm restricted to using 2.4.4 on my server.

Can someone please provide a simple code example?

Answer 1

You have to use namelist() and extract(). Sample considering directories

import zipfile
import os.path
import os
zfile = zipfile.ZipFile("test.zip")
for name in zfile.namelist():
  (dirname, filename) = os.path.split(name)
  print "Decompressing " + filename + " on " + dirname
  if not os.path.exists(dirname):
    os.makedirs(dirname)
  zfile.extract(name, dirname)