[Tutor] identifying if a path is heading into a zip file - windows

[Alan Gauld]

> Take a second path:
> 
> path= 'c:\my folder\a file.zip\a folder in the zip'
> 
> Is there a way for python to know, without me physically breaking it down, that that path is in a zip file?
> 
I don’t think so, the standard library tools simply analyse the text.
You would need to write a function that traversed the path checking for isfile()

Alan G.