\section{\module{zipfile} --- Work with ZIP archives} \declaremodule{standard}{zipfile} \modulesynopsis{Read and write ZIP-format archive files.} \moduleauthor{James C. Ahlstrom}{jim@interet.com} \sectionauthor{James C. Ahlstrom}{jim@interet.com} % LaTeX markup by Fred L. Drake, Jr. \versionadded{1.6} 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. Any advanced use of this module will require an understanding of the format, as defined in \citetitle[http://www.pkware.com/business_and_developers/developer/appnote/] {PKZIP Application Note}. This module does not currently handle ZIP files which have appended comments, or multi-disk ZIP files. It can handle ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions (that is ZIP files that are more than 4 GByte in size). It supports decryption of encrypted files in ZIP archives, but it cannot currently create an encrypted file. The available attributes of this module are: \begin{excdesc}{error} The error raised for bad ZIP files. \end{excdesc} \begin{excdesc}{LargeZipFile} The error raised when a ZIP file would require ZIP64 functionality but that has not been enabled. \end{excdesc} \begin{classdesc*}{ZipFile} The class for reading and writing ZIP files. See ``\citetitle{ZipFile Objects}'' (section \ref{zipfile-objects}) for constructor details. \end{classdesc*} \begin{classdesc*}{PyZipFile} Class for creating ZIP archives containing Python libraries. \end{classdesc*} \begin{classdesc}{ZipInfo}{\optional{filename\optional{, date_time}}} Class used to represent information about a member of an archive. Instances of this class are returned by the \method{getinfo()} and \method{infolist()} methods of \class{ZipFile} objects. Most users of the \module{zipfile} module will not need to create these, but only use those created by this module. \var{filename} should be the full name of the archive member, and \var{date_time} should be a tuple containing six fields which describe the time of the last modification to the file; the fields are described in section \ref{zipinfo-objects}, ``ZipInfo Objects.'' \end{classdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{is_zipfile}{filename} Returns \code{True} if \var{filename} is a valid ZIP file based on its magic number, otherwise returns \code{False}. This module does not currently handle ZIP files which have appended comments. \end{funcdesc} \begin{datadesc}{ZIP_STORED} The numeric constant for an uncompressed archive member. \end{datadesc} \begin{datadesc}{ZIP_DEFLATED} The numeric constant for the usual ZIP compression method. This requires the zlib module. No other compression methods are currently supported. \end{datadesc} \begin{seealso} \seetitle[http://www.pkware.com/business_and_developers/developer/appnote/] {PKZIP Application Note}{Documentation on the ZIP file format by Phil Katz, the creator of the format and algorithms used.} \seetitle[http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/]{Info-ZIP Home Page}{ Information about the Info-ZIP project's ZIP archive programs and development libraries.} \end{seealso} \subsection{ZipFile Objects \label{zipfile-objects}} \begin{classdesc}{ZipFile}{file\optional{, mode\optional{, compression\optional{, allowZip64}}}} Open a ZIP file, where \var{file} can be either a path to a file (a string) or a file-like object. The \var{mode} parameter should be \code{'r'} to read an existing file, \code{'w'} to truncate and write a new file, or \code{'a'} to append to an existing file. For \var{mode} is \code{'a'} and \var{file} refers to an existing ZIP file, then additional files are added to it. If \var{file} does not refer to a ZIP file, then a new ZIP archive is appended to the file. This is meant for adding a ZIP archive to another file, such as \file{python.exe}. Using \begin{verbatim} cat myzip.zip >> python.exe \end{verbatim} also works, and at least \program{WinZip} can read such files. \var{compression} is the ZIP compression method to use when writing the archive, and should be \constant{ZIP_STORED} or \constant{ZIP_DEFLATED}; unrecognized values will cause \exception{RuntimeError} to be raised. If \constant{ZIP_DEFLATED} is specified but the \refmodule{zlib} module is not available, \exception{RuntimeError} is also raised. The default is \constant{ZIP_STORED}. If \var{allowZip64} is \code{True} zipfile will create ZIP files that use the ZIP64 extensions when the zipfile is larger than 2 GB. If it is false (the default) \module{zipfile} will raise an exception when the ZIP file would require ZIP64 extensions. ZIP64 extensions are disabled by default because the default \program{zip} and \program{unzip} commands on \UNIX{} (the InfoZIP utilities) don't support these extensions. \end{classdesc} \begin{methoddesc}{close}{} Close the archive file. You must call \method{close()} before exiting your program or essential records will not be written. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{getinfo}{name} Return a \class{ZipInfo} object with information about the archive member \var{name}. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{infolist}{} Return a list containing a \class{ZipInfo} object for each member of the archive. The objects are in the same order as their entries in the actual ZIP file on disk if an existing archive was opened. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{namelist}{} Return a list of archive members by name. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{printdir}{} Print a table of contents for the archive to \code{sys.stdout}. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{setpassword}{pwd} Set \var{pwd} as default password to extract encrypted files. \versionadded{2.6} \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{read}{name\optional{, pwd}} Return the bytes of the file in the archive. The archive must be open for read or append. \var{pwd} is the password used for encrypted files and, if specified, it will override the default password set with \method{setpassword()}. \versionchanged[\var{pwd} was added]{2.6} \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{testzip}{} Read all the files in the archive and check their CRC's and file headers. Return the name of the first bad file, or else return \code{None}. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{write}{filename\optional{, arcname\optional{, compress_type}}} Write the file named \var{filename} to the archive, giving it the archive name \var{arcname} (by default, this will be the same as \var{filename}, but without a drive letter and with leading path separators removed). If given, \var{compress_type} overrides the value given for the \var{compression} parameter to the constructor for the new entry. The archive must be open with mode \code{'w'} or \code{'a'}. \note{There is no official file name encoding for ZIP files. If you have unicode file names, please convert them to byte strings in your desired encoding before passing them to \method{write()}. WinZip interprets all file names as encoded in CP437, also known as DOS Latin.} \note{Archive names should be relative to the archive root, that is, they should not start with a path separator.} \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{writestr}{zinfo_or_arcname, bytes} Write the string \var{bytes} to the archive; \var{zinfo_or_arcname} is either the file name it will be given in the archive, or a \class{ZipInfo} instance. If it's an instance, at least the filename, date, and time must be given. If it's a name, the date and time is set to the current date and time. The archive must be opened with mode \code{'w'} or \code{'a'}. \end{methoddesc} The following data attribute is also available: \begin{memberdesc}{debug} The level of debug output to use. This may be set from \code{0} (the default, no output) to \code{3} (the most output). Debugging information is written to \code{sys.stdout}. \end{memberdesc} \subsection{PyZipFile Objects \label{pyzipfile-objects}} The \class{PyZipFile} constructor takes the same parameters as the \class{ZipFile} constructor. Instances have one method in addition to those of \class{ZipFile} objects. \begin{methoddesc}[PyZipFile]{writepy}{pathname\optional{, basename}} Search for files \file{*.py} and add the corresponding file to the archive. The corresponding file is a \file{*.pyo} file if available, else a \file{*.pyc} file, compiling if necessary. If the pathname is a file, the filename must end with \file{.py}, and just the (corresponding \file{*.py[co]}) file is added at the top level (no path information). If it is a directory, and the directory is not a package directory, then all the files \file{*.py[co]} are added at the top level. If the directory is a package directory, then all \file{*.py[oc]} are added under the package name as a file path, and if any subdirectories are package directories, all of these are added recursively. \var{basename} is intended for internal use only. The \method{writepy()} method makes archives with file names like this: \begin{verbatim} string.pyc # Top level name test/__init__.pyc # Package directory test/testall.pyc # Module test.testall test/bogus/__init__.pyc # Subpackage directory test/bogus/myfile.pyc # Submodule test.bogus.myfile \end{verbatim} \end{methoddesc} \subsection{ZipInfo Objects \label{zipinfo-objects}} Instances of the \class{ZipInfo} class are returned by the \method{getinfo()} and \method{infolist()} methods of \class{ZipFile} objects. Each object stores information about a single member of the ZIP archive. Instances have the following attributes: \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{filename} Name of the file in the archive. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{date_time} The time and date of the last modification to the archive member. This is a tuple of six values: \begin{tableii}{c|l}{code}{Index}{Value} \lineii{0}{Year} \lineii{1}{Month (one-based)} \lineii{2}{Day of month (one-based)} \lineii{3}{Hours (zero-based)} \lineii{4}{Minutes (zero-based)} \lineii{5}{Seconds (zero-based)} \end{tableii} \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{compress_type} Type of compression for the archive member. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{comment} Comment for the individual archive member. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{extra} Expansion field data. The \citetitle[http://www.pkware.com/business_and_developers/developer/appnote/] {PKZIP Application Note} contains some comments on the internal structure of the data contained in this string. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{create_system} System which created ZIP archive. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{create_version} PKZIP version which created ZIP archive. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{extract_version} PKZIP version needed to extract archive. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{reserved} Must be zero. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{flag_bits} ZIP flag bits. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{volume} Volume number of file header. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{internal_attr} Internal attributes. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{external_attr} External file attributes. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{header_offset} Byte offset to the file header. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{CRC} CRC-32 of the uncompressed file. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{compress_size} Size of the compressed data. \end{memberdesc} \begin{memberdesc}[ZipInfo]{file_size} Size of the uncompressed file. \end{memberdesc}