pythonzipunzip

How to unzip specific folder from a .zip with Python

I am looking to unzip a particular folder from a .zip in Python:

e.g. archive.zip contains the folders foo and bar, I want to unzip foo to a specific location, retaining it's folder structure.

Solution

  • Check zipfile module.

    For your case:

    import zipfile

archive = zipfile.ZipFile('archive.zip')

for file in archive.namelist():
    if file.startswith('foo/'):
        archive.extract(file, 'destination_path')