On May 10, 2005, at 01:18, D. Hartley wrote: > I admitted that my grasp of classes (and "constructors") is a bit > fuzzy. I did get this particular class to work, and got the first half > of the problem done. However, now i'm working in another class, > zipinfo. It says: > > Instances of the ZipInfo class are returned by the getinfo() and > infolist() methods of ZipFile objects. Each object stores information > about a single member of the ZIP archive. > > Instances have the following attributes: > > filename, comment, etc. > > > I've tried about ten things to get "filename" to work: > > myzip.filename("99905.txt") (str not callable)
ZipFile.filename is an attribute, not a method. It contains the name of the archive (in other words, in your case myzip.filename == "myzip.zip"). > myzip.comment(file("99905.txt")) (no file with this name - i suppose, > if it's still zipped?) What you're doing in that line is open a file for reading, named 99905.txt and located in the current folder, and *then* passing it to the ZipFile.comment method. Obviously not working. :D > myzip.getinfo(99905.txt) (invalid syntax) Aah! So close! The quotes, dear, you forgot about the quotes! ;) >>> myzip.getinfo("99905.txt") <zipfile.ZipInfo instance at 0x5d8a0> (cue Final Fantasy VII victory fanfare) Also, you may want to have a look at the ZipFile.NameToInfo attribute. In your case, myzip.NameToInfo is a dictionary which contains ZipInfo's for each of the files contained in the archive, where the key for each ZipInfo is the name of the corresponding files. In other words, >>> myzip.NameToInfo["99905.txt"] <zipfile.ZipInfo instance at 0x5d8a0> Yeah, used that way it pretty much does the same thing as getinfo (), but I think it's more Pythonic (using a getinfo method feels Java- ish). Hope that helps, -- Max maxnoel_fr at yahoo dot fr -- ICQ #85274019 "Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?" _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor