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I’ve a zip file say ‘test.zip’ and files name as ‘first.txt’ ,’first1.txt’ and ‘second.txt’ . I need to extract only files that start with word ‘first’ . How to do this in python ?

MsSourDiesel
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  • something similiar: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56786321/read-multiple-csv-files-zipped-in-one-file – PV8 Aug 19 '19 at 12:58
  • The solution in the question marked as duplicate can be adapted for files. – Paolo Aug 19 '19 at 13:07

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You can iterate over all files in zip archive and check filename before extracting:

import zipfile

with zipfile.ZipFile('test.zip', 'r') as zp:
    files = zipfile.ZipFile.infolist(zp)
    for file in files:
        if file.filename.startswith('first'):
            with open(file.filename, 'wb') as f:
                f.write(zp.read(file.filename))
Alderven
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