Data Compression and Archiving

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zipfile

Read and write ZIP files.

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Symbols in zipfile

b

BadZipfile: Alias of BadZipFile, for compatibility with older Python versions.
BadZipFile: The error raised for bad ZIP files.

i

is_zipfile: Quickly see if a file is a ZIP file by checking the magic number.

l

LargeZipFile: Raised when writing a zipfile, the zipfile requires ZIP64 extensions and those extensions are disabled.

p

Path: A :class:`importlib.resources.abc.Traversable` interface for zip files.
PyZipFile: Class to create ZIP archives with Python library files and packages.

z

ZIP_BZIP2: The numeric constant for the BZIP2 compression method.
ZIP_DEFLATED: The numeric constant for the usual ZIP compression method.
ZIP_LZMA: The numeric constant for the LZMA compression method.
ZIP_STORED: The numeric constant for an uncompressed archive member.
ZIP_ZSTANDARD: The numeric constant for Zstandard compression.
ZipFile: Class with methods to open, read, write, close, list zip files.
ZipInfo: Class with attributes describing each file in the ZIP archive.