How to open password protected zip file in Python 3

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I'm trying to open a password protected zip file in Python. However, I'm completely stuck!

I've gone through the python documentation on zip files, but I can't find anything for opening one that is password protected.

Could someone please point me in the right direction?

path = "some_file.zip"
password = "example123"

# How do I add the password parameter?
ZipFile.extractall(path)

Have you tried anything at all yet? Any code you can post? – Melissa Avery-Weir Apr 14 '15 at 15:39 — Melissa Avery-Weir, Apr 14 '15 at 15:39

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 14 '15 at 15:44

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From https://docs.python.org/2/library/zipfile.html:

ZipFile.extractall([path[, members[, pwd]]])

Extract all members from the archive to the current working directory. path specifies a different directory to extract to. members is optional and must be a subset of the list returned by namelist(). pwd is the password used for encrypted files.

Works on Python 3 too: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html

edited Apr 14 '15 at 15:44

Artjom B.

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answered Apr 14 '15 at 15:42

Cristik

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This applies only to legacy weak encryption. For current strong encryption see: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15553150/python-unzip-aes-128-encrypted-file – Mike Feustel Mar 30 '22 at 05:00

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