First of all, there's really no such thing as a "self extracting zipefile". I mean, obviously you have to do something to unzip it. A file doesn't just execute itself. What you're dealing with is not a _zip file_. It's an executable that has a zip file bundled with it, and the code to unzip it, most likely into your current directory (though some such executables allow you to provide a path to unzip to). You'll have to execute it--there's no way you can operate on it like a normal zip file.
On Aug 29, 7:53 am, Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I try to read (and extract) some "self extracting" zipefiles on a > Windows system. The standard module zipefile seems not to be able to > handle this. > > >>> fName = r"C:\tmp\mySelfExtratingFile.exe" > >>> import zipfile > >>> zipefile.is_zipfile(fName)) > > False > > Is there a wrapper or has some one experience with other libaries to > extract those files? > > Thanks in advance > Werner -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
