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py3interm/EXAMPLES/zipfile_ex.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+from zipfile import ZipFile, ZIP_DEFLATED
+import os.path
+
+# reading & extracting
+rzip = ZipFile("../DATA/textfiles.zip")  # <1>
+print(rzip.namelist())  # <2>
+ty = rzip.read('tyger.txt').decode()  # <3>
+print(ty[:50])
+rzip.extract('parrot.txt')  # <4>
+
+# creating a zip file
+wzip = ZipFile("example.zip", mode="w", compression=ZIP_DEFLATED)  # <5>
+for base in "parrot tyger knights alice poe_sonnet spam".split():
+    filename = os.path.join("../DATA", base + '.txt')
+    print("adding {} as {}".format(filename, base + '.txt'))
+    wzip.write(filename, base + '.txt')  # <6>