7.14 `zipfile` -- Work with ZIP archives

The ZIP file format is a common archive and compression standard. This module provides tools to create, read, write, append, and list a ZIP file.

The available attributes of this module are:

error: The error raised for bad ZIP files.

_debug: Level of printing, defaults to 1.

ZipFile (...): The class for reading and writing ZIP files. See ``ZipFile Objects'' (section 7.14.1) for constructor details.

is_zipfile (path): Returns true if path is a valid ZIP file based on its magic number, otherwise returns false. This module does not currently handle ZIP files which have appended comments.

zip2date (zdate): Return (year, month, day) for a ZIP date code.

zip2time (ztime): Return (hour, minute, second) for a ZIP time code.

date2zip (year, month, day): Return a ZIP date code.

time2zip (hour, minute, second): Return a ZIP time code.

ZIP_STORED: The numeric constant (0) for an uncompressed archive member.

ZIP_DEFLATED: The numeric constant for the usual ZIP compression method. This requires the zlib module. No other compression methods are currently supported.

See Also:

XXX point to ZIP format definition

XXX point to Info-ZIP home page; mention WiZ

Subsections

7.14.1 ZipFile Objects

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