Re: unzipping a zipx file

2013-04-20 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
19.04.13 20:59, b_erickson1 написав(ла): I have python 2.6.2 and I trying to get it to unzip a file made with winzip pro. The file extension is zipx. This is on a windows machine where I have to send them all that files necessary to run. I am packaging this with py2exe. I can open the file

Re: unzipping a zipx file

2013-04-19 Thread Dave Angel
On 04/19/2013 08:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: You are missing that zipx is not the same as zip, and Python very likely does not support the zipx compression algorithm. http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/7/ My guess is that the zipx header is similar enough to zip that Python can retrieve

Re: unzipping a zipx file

2013-04-19 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:59:26 +, b_erickson1 wrote: > I have python 2.6.2 and I trying to get it to unzip a file made with > winzip pro. The file extension is zipx. This is on a windows machine > where I have to send them all that files necessary to run. I am > packaging this with py2exe. I

Re: unzipping a zipx file

2013-04-19 Thread Tim Chase
On 2013-04-19 16:29, Dave Angel wrote: > > zFile = zipfile.ZipFile(fullPathName,'r') > > The second parameter to ZipFile() probably should be 'rb' not 'r' Just for the record, the zipfile.ZipFile.__init__ maps "r" to open the file with "rb", so that's not the issue. Your suggestion about opening

Re: unzipping a zipx file

2013-04-19 Thread Dave Angel
On 04/19/2013 01:59 PM, b_erickson1 wrote: I have python 2.6.2 and I trying to get it to unzip a file made with winzip pro. The file extension is zipx. This is on a windows machine where I have to send them all that files necessary to run. I am packaging this with py2exe. I can open the fi

Re: unzipping a zipx file

2013-04-19 Thread John Gordon
In John Gordon writes: > In "b_erickson1" > writes: > > ozFile = open(filename,'w') > > ozFile.write(zFile.read(filename)) > > ozFile.close() > Perhaps you want to use zFile.extract() instead of zFile.read()? No, that's not it. Your code should work. Y

Re: unzipping a zipx file

2013-04-19 Thread John Gordon
In "b_erickson1" writes: > ozFile = open(filename,'w') > ozFile.write(zFile.read(filename)) > ozFile.close() Perhaps you want to use zFile.extract() instead of zFile.read()? -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@pan

unzipping a zipx file

2013-04-19 Thread b_erickson1
I have python 2.6.2 and I trying to get it to unzip a file made with winzip pro. The file extension is zipx. This is on a windows machine where I have to send them all that files necessary to run. I am packaging this with py2exe. I can open the file with zFile = zipfile.ZipFile(fullPathName