i need help to extract files from a zip file using python

Question

i have created a zip file called shoppy and put "cats.txt" in it and now i want to extract it but my code doesn't work it gives me this error

AttributeError: '_io.TextIOWrapper' object has no attribute 'extract'

here is my code

from zipfile import *

z=open("shoppy.zip","U")
z.extract("cats.txt")

I suggest referring http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3451111/unzipping-files-in-python — Rudrani Angira, Jun 27 '16 at 23:43

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 28 '16 at 00:11

The first problem is that open() refers to the builtin function, not to any function in the zipfile - there is no zipfile.open() function.

To open a zip file use the zipfile.ZipFile class:

import zipfile

z = zipfile.ZipFile('shoppy.zip')
z.extract('cats.txt')

This will unzip the file into the current directory. If you would prefer to unzip into a string you can use zipfile.read():

content = z.read('cats.txt')

Now content will contain the unzipped content of the file.

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