Sometimes, we want to unzip files in Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to unzip files in Python.
How to unzip files in Python?
To unzip files in Python, we can use the zipfile
module.
For instance, we write
import zipfile
with zipfile.ZipFile(path_to_zip_file, 'r') as zip_ref:
zip_ref.extractall(directory_to_extract_to)
to create a ZipFile
object to open the path_to_zip_file
file with read permission.
Then we call zip_ref.extractall
with the directory_to_extract_to
string to extract the files in the zip file into the directory_to_extract_to
directory.
Conclusion
To unzip files in Python, we can use the zipfile
module.