On Aug 29, 6:53 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
Since it's an executable, why not just use the subprocess module? I did find this set of scripts, but I don't know if they will help: http://www.example-code.com/python/zip.asp I did find how to extract via the command line, which you could use in conjunction with the subprocess module: http://help.globalscape.com/help/cutezip2/Creating_and_extracting_archives.htm Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
