Sander Sweers wrote:
2009/3/10 Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>:
newFile.write(zf.read(zfilename))
Remember you are reading the file into memory and then writing it
out again in a single operation, that will use twice the space of the
uncompressed files - plus some extra for overhead.
Question, Do you mean the file in the zipfile (zfilename) or the whole
zipfile (zf)? I would expect zf.read(zfilename) to only read the
requested file in the zipfile.
I've never used zipfile extensively, but I think it depends on the
archive and the compression algorithm. Solid archive (multiple files
compressed as a single big file) may need to be fully extracted, except
if the algorithm can somehow figure out a way of extracting a single
file from a solid archive without extracting everything first.
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