Archived:How to create and extract zip archives using PySymbian

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Tested with

Devices(s): Nokia N95, Nokia E90

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Compatibility

Platform(s): S60 1st Edition, S60 2nd Edition, S60 3rd Edition

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Keywords: zipfile

Created: bogdan.galiceanu (02 Jun 2008)

Last edited: hamishwillee (18 Sep 2012)

Overview

This article shows how to create and extract zip archives in Python.

Source code

Creating an archive

import zipfile
 
 
#Create a new archive
a = zipfile.ZipFile("C:\\x.zip", 'w')
#Add the file "x.sis" to the archive
a.write("C:\\x.sis")
#Close the archive
a.close()

Appending to an existing archive

import zipfile
 
 
#Open an archive
a = zipfile.ZipFile("C:\\x.zip", 'a')
#Add the file "y.sis" to the archive
a.write("C:\\y.sis")
#Close the archive
a.close()

Extracting the contents of an archive

import zipfile
 
 
#Open the archive in read mode
a = zipfile.ZipFile("C:\\x.zip", 'r')
#Extract every file from it
for i in a.namelist():
     b = open("C:\\"+i, 'wb')
     b.write(a.read(i))
     b.close()
#Close the archive
a.close()

Postconditions

The operations described above are performed.

Additional information

More information about the zipfile library can be found here.