How to Create and Extract Zip file in Python

What is ZIP File?

• A ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. (or)
• A zip file is a way of grouping or archiving multiple files in one file.

Now, we will see how to create a zip file using python and how to extract that zip file using the same python. It is very simple and easy, Let’s move on

Create ZIP Files

To create a ZIP file, we have to import one built-in module called zipfile with import keyword. we have to compress our files, we will go to write mode.

import zipfile

# create open zip file in write mode
with zipfile.ZipFile('zip_file.zip', 'w') as zip:
    #write files to a zip file
    zip.write('iterathon.txt')
    zip.write('image.jpg')

print('Zip File is created successfully')

In the above program, I created a zip file name called zip_file.zip then, I stored two files in a zip_file( iterathon.txt and image.jpg). Once a zip_file was created successfully, It shows a successful message.

Extract Zip Files

we want to unzip our zip files, we will go to read mode and use extractall().

import zipfile

# open zip file in read mode
with zipfile.ZipFile('zip_file.zip', 'r') as zip:
     # Extract files 
    zip.extractall('zip_file')

print('Zip File is extracted successfully')

Use the extractall() method to unzip the files using zipfile module.

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