Could zipfile module process the zip data in memory?

[John Machin]

On Apr 29, 9:51 pm, 人言落日是天涯，望极天涯不见家 <kelvin.... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 29, 7:37 pm, "Daniel Nogradi" <nogr... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > I made a C/S network program, the client receive the zip file from the
> > > server, and read the data into a variable. how could I process the
> > > zipfile directly without saving it into file.
> > > In the document of the zipfile module, I note that it mentions the
> > > file-like object? what does it mean?
>
> > > class ZipFile( file[, mode[, compression[, allowZip64]]])
> > >          Open a ZIP file, where file can be either a path to a file (a
> > > string) or a file-like object.
>
> > Yes it is possible to process the content of the zipfile without
> > saving every file:
>
> > [untested]
>
> >         from zipfile import ZipFile
> >         from StringIO import StringIO
>
> >         zipp = ZipFile( this_is_the_zip_file_from_your_server, 'r' )
> >         for name in zipp.namelist( ):
> >                 content = zipp.read( name )
> >                 s = StringIO( )
> >                 s.write( content )
> >                 # now the file 'name' is in 's' (in memory)
> >                 # you can process it further
> >                 # ............
> >                 s.close( )
> >         zipp.close( )
>
> > HTH,
> > Daniel
>
> Thanks!
> Maybe my poor english makes you confusion:-). The client receive the
> zip file data from the server, and keep these data as a variable, not
> as a file in harddisk. such as "zipFileData", but the first argument
> of the "ZipFile" is filename. I would like to let the ZipFile() open
> the file from "zipFileData" directly but not file in harddisk
>
> zipp = ZipFile( this_is_the_zip_file_from_your_server, 'r' )
>                               ^ I don't have this file, all its data
> is in a variable.

Try something like this:

from zipfile import ZipFile
from StringIO import StringIO
filelikeobj = StringIO(zipFileData)
zipp = ZipFile(filelikeobj, 'r')
for name in zipp.namelist():
    # etc etc etc