
We can extract only the files which we want by passing a list of names of the files we want to extract.
#Python unzip archive
1.Extracting a list of files from all the files in the archive Output: List of items in the specified directory after extractionĮxtracting only some specific member (content) of an archived file based on different conditions. Print("List of items in the specified directory after extraction")
#Python unzip zip file
#extracting all the content of the zip file in directory 'trial'. We might need this feature when are need the files to be organized into a new directory or to be extracted into a particular directory.We will use the extractall() function with the argument path="the path of the directory where we need to extract the content of zip file".
#Python unzip how to
Now that we know how to extract the contents of an archived file into the current directory we can learn how to extract the contents into another directory. List of items in the directory after extractionĮxtracting all the members(content) of an archived file in another directory.

Output: List of items in the directory before extraction Print("List of items in the directory after extraction") #Printing list of item in the current working directory before extracting contents With zipfile.ZipFile("logbackup.zip","r") as zf: #Extracting all the content of the zip file in current working directory. Print("List of items in the directory before extraction") #Printing list of item in the current working directory before extracting contents of zip file
#Python unzip password
Pwd:This argument is a string containing the password of the zip file if the file is encrypted. Members:This argument should be a list containing the names of the members that we want to extract from the zip file. Path:This argument stores a path to directory where the zip files need to be extracted, if it is not specified the file is extracted in the current working directory. Syntax:extractall(path,members,pwd) Parameters: This function takes the path where the archive needs to be extracted,the members(content) that needs to be extracted and the password of the archive if it is encrypted and extracts all the members of archive file if the member argument is set to none. We can use the functionalities provided by the zipfile module to extract all the content of an archived file.Using the extractall() function of the zipfile module we can extract all the content of the archived file at once. OR Extracting all the members(content) of an archived file in the current directory



In this article we will learn how to extract single or multiple files from a zip file, unzip the whole file etc. When working with archived files there are various ways in which you can unzip your file.
