Brandon Taylor wrote:
> On Feb 3, 1:16 pm, Brandon Taylor <btaylordes...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 3, 9:45 am, "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-...@yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> En Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:31:24 -0200, Brandon Taylor
>>> <btaylordes...@gmail.com> escribió:
>>>> I'm having an issue specifying the path for extracting files from
>>>> a .zip archive. In my method, I have:
>>>> zip_file.extract(zip_name + '/' + thumbnail_image, thumbnail_path)
>>>> What is happening is that the extract method is creating a folder with
>>>> the name of 'zip_name' and extracting the files to it. Example:
>>> extract will create all directories in member name. Use open instead:
>>> with zip_file.open(zip_name + '/' + thumbnail_image) as source:
>>> with open(os.path.join(thumbnail_path, thumbnail_image), "wb")
as target:
>>> shutil.copyfileobj(source, target)
>>> (untested)
>>> --
>>> Gabriel Genellina
>> Hi Gabriel,
>>
>> Thank you for the code sample. I figured I was going to have to use
>> 'open', but I completely forgot about the 'with' statement. I was
>> trying to figure out how to get access to the file object in the zip
>> without having to loop over all of the items, and 'with' will allow me
>> to do just that.
>>
>> I'll give it a shot when I get home this evening and post my results.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Brandon
>
> Ok, the first thing I needed to do was add:
>
> from __future__ import with_statement at the beginning of my file
>
> but:
>
> with zip_file.open(zip_name + '/' + thumbnail_image) as source:
> with open(os.path.join(thumbnail_path,
> thumbnail_image), 'wb') as target:
> shutil.copyfileobj(source, target)
>
> Returns an error on the first line:
>
> ZipExtFile instance has no attribute '__exit__'
>
> Googling this error message is turning up nothing, and there's no
> mention of the exception in the docs. Any thoughts?
>
The 'with' statement relies on the object having __enter__ and __exit__
methods. It looks like the object returned by zip_file.open() doesn't
have them.
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