7.16.3 ZipInfo Objects

Instances of the ZipInfo class are returned by the getinfo() and infolist() methods of ZipFile objects. Each object stores information about a single member of the ZIP archive.

Instances have the following attributes:

filename: Name of the file in the archive.

date_time

The time and date of the last modification to to the archive member. This is a tuple of six values:

Index Value

0 Year
1 Month (one-based)
2 Day of month (one-based)
3 Hours (zero-based)
4 Minutes (zero-based)
5 Seconds (zero-based)

Index	Value
`0`	Year
`1`	Month (one-based)
`2`	Day of month (one-based)
`3`	Hours (zero-based)
`4`	Minutes (zero-based)
`5`	Seconds (zero-based)

compress_type: Type of compression for the archive member.

comment: Comment for the individual archive member.

extra: Expansion field data. The PKZIP Application Note contains some comments on the internal structure of the data contained in this string.

create_system: System which created ZIP archive.

create_version: PKZIP version which created ZIP archive.

extract_version: PKZIP version needed to extract archive.

reserved: Must be zero.

flag_bits: ZIP flag bits.

volume: Volume number of file header.

internal_attr: Internal attributes.

external_attr: External file attributes.

header_offset: Byte offset to the file header.

file_offset: Byte offset to the start of the file data.

CRC: CRC-32 of the uncompressed file.

compress_size: Size of the compressed data.

file_size: Size of the uncompressed file.

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