On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:59:26 +0000, 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 file with zFile = > zipfile.ZipFile(fullPathName,'r') and I can look through all the file in > the archive for filename in zFile.namelist(): > but when I write the file out with this code: > ozFile = open(filename,'w') > ozFile.write(zFile.read(filename)) > ozFile.close() > that file still looks encrypted. No errors are thrown. The file is > just a text file not a jpeg or anything else. I can open the file with > 7zip and extract the text file out just fine. > > > What am I missing?
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 the file names, but it cannot decompress the files. Unfortunately, instead of getting a nice error, it is fooled into thinking that it decompressed when in fact you just got junk. I suggest that you start with a simple example: create a plain text file with just a few words. Compress this single file to .zipx, then try to decompress it using Python. If it still fails, you will have a simple example that you could post here and see if others have more success. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list