Extracting a zipfile to memory?

How do I extract a zip to memory?

My attempt (returning None on .getvalue()):

from zipfile import ZipFile
from StringIO import StringIO

def extract_zip(input_zip):
    return StringIO(ZipFile(input_zip).extractall())

Answers:

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Method 1

extractall extracts to the file system, so you won’t get what you want. To extract a file in memory, use the ZipFile.read() method.

If you really need the full content in memory, you could do something like:

def extract_zip(input_zip):
    input_zip=ZipFile(input_zip)
    return {name: input_zip.read(name) for name in input_zip.namelist()}

Method 2

If you work with in-memory archives frequently, I would recommend making a tool. Something like this:

# Works in Python 2 and 3.

try:
    import BytesIO
except ImportError:
    from io import BytesIO  # Python 3
import zipfile


class InMemoryZip(object):
    def __init__(self):
        # Create the in-memory file-like object for working w/IMZ
        self.in_memory_zip = BytesIO()

    # Just zip it, zip it
    def append(self, filename_in_zip, file_contents):
        # Appends a file with name filename_in_zip and contents of
        # file_contents to the in-memory zip.
        # Get a handle to the in-memory zip in append mode
        zf = zipfile.ZipFile(self.in_memory_zip, "a", zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED, False)

        # Write the file to the in-memory zip
        zf.writestr(filename_in_zip, file_contents)

        # Mark the files as having been created on Windows so that
        # Unix permissions are not inferred as 0000
        for zfile in zf.filelist:
            zfile.create_system = 0

        return self

    def read(self):
        # Returns a string with the contents of the in-memory zip.
        self.in_memory_zip.seek(0)
        return self.in_memory_zip.read()

    # Zip it, zip it, zip it
    def writetofile(self, filename):
        # Writes the in-memory zip to a physical file.
        with open(filename, "wb") as file:
            file.write(self.read())


if __name__ == "__main__":
    # Run a test
    imz = InMemoryZip()
    imz.append("testfile.txt", "Make a test").append("testfile2.txt", "And another one")
    imz.writetofile("testfile.zip")
    print("testfile.zip created")

Method 3

Probable reasons:

1.This module does not currently handle multi-disk ZIP files.
(OR)
2.Check with StringIO.getvalue() weather Unicode Error is coming up.

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