On Jul 2, 3:39 pm, noydb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone help me with this script, which I found posted elsewhere? > I'm trying to figure out what is going on here so that I can alter it > for my needs, but the lack of descriptive names is making it > difficult. And, the script doesn't quite do anything worthwhile -- it > unzips one file from a zipfile, not all files in a zipfile. > > *** > import zipfile, os, sys, glob > > os.chdir("C:\\Temp") > zips = glob.glob('*.zip') > > for fzip in zips: > if zipfile.is_zipfile(fzip): > print fzip," is a zip" > z = zipfile.ZipFile(fzip,'r') > lstName = z.namelist() > sHgt = lstName[0] > print "Unpacking",sHgt > hgt = z.read(sHgt) > fHgt = open(sHgt,'wb') > fHgt.write(hgt) > # fHgt.flush > fHgt.close > print "Finished" > *** > > I changed it somewhat to > &&& > import zipfile, os, sys > > event_zip = ("C:\\Temp\\data4event.zip") > > z = zipfile.ZipFile(event_zip, 'r') > > zList = z.namelist() > > for zItem in zList: > print "Unpacking",zItem > zRead = z.read(zItem) > z1File = open(zItem,'wb') > z1File.write(zRead) > z1File.close > print "Finished" > &&& > > This works, but I want to be able to specify a different output > location. > > The scenario is that the zip file will always be the same (gets copied > over daily), but it needs to be unzipped to a specific different > directory. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks!
Well, how is the output directory different ? Is it just a timestamp like 'YYYYMMDD' that obviously changes every day or is it named after the file used ? If it is timestamp style you can do import zipfile, os, sys, time folder_name = time.strftime("%Y%m%d", time.localtime(time.time())) event_zip = ("C:\\Temp\\data4event.zip") z = zipfile.ZipFile(event_zip, 'r') zList = z.namelist() for zItem in zList: print "Unpacking",zItem zRead = z.read(zItem) z1File = open(os.path.join(folder_name, zItem),'wb') z1File.write(zRead) z1File.close print "Finished" That will create a folder in your current working directory with the name of todays date and unzip it there. This is just one example route. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list