Extracting zip file contents to specific directory in Python 2.7

Question

This is the code I am currently using to extract a zip file that lives in the same current working directory as the script. How can I specify a different directory to extract to?

The code I tried is not extracting it where I want.

import zipfile  fh = open('test.zip', 'rb') z = zipfile.ZipFile(fh) for name in z.namelist():     outfile = open(name, 'wb')     outfile.write('C:\\'+z.read(name))     outfile.close() fh.close() 

Answer 1

I think you've just got a mixup here. Should probably be something like the following:

import zipfile  fh = open('test.zip', 'rb') z = zipfile.ZipFile(fh) for name in z.namelist():     outpath = "C:\\"     z.extract(name, outpath) fh.close() 

and if you just want to extract all the files:

import zipfile  with zipfile.ZipFile('test.zip', "r") as z:     z.extractall("C:\\") 

Use pip install zipfile36 for recent versions of Python

import zipfile36