Unzipping files in Python

John Howard picture John Howard · Aug 10, 2010 · Viewed 546.9k times · Source

I read through the zipfile documentation, but couldn't understand how to unzip a file, only how to zip a file. How do I unzip all the contents of a zip file into the same directory?

Answer

Rahul picture Rahul · Aug 10, 2010
import zipfile
with zipfile.ZipFile(path_to_zip_file, 'r') as zip_ref:
    zip_ref.extractall(directory_to_extract_to)

That's pretty much it!