unzipping a zipx file
Dave Angel
davea at davea.name
Fri Apr 19 16:29:58 EDT 2013
On 04/19/2013 01:59 PM, b_erickson1 wrote:
> I have python 2.6.2 and I trying to get it to unzip a file made with winzip pro. The file extension is zipx. This is on a windows machine where I have to send them all that files necessary to run. I am packaging this with py2exe. I can open the file with
> zFile = zipfile.ZipFile(fullPathName,'r')
> and I can look through all the file in the archive
> for filename in zFile.namelist():
> but when I write the file out with this code:
> ozFile = open(filename,'w')
> ozFile.write(zFile.read(filename))
> ozFile.close()
> that file still looks encrypted. No errors are thrown. The file is just a text file not a jpeg or anything else. I can open the file with 7zip and extract the text file out just fine.
>
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Thanks
>
The second parameter to ZipFile() probably should be 'rb' not 'r'
Likewise, I'd suggest using 'wb' on the output file, though that's not
your problem here.
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DaveA
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