I have zip files uploaded by clients through a web server that sometimes contain pesky __MACOSX directories inside that gum things up. How can I remove these?
I thought of using ZipFile, but this answer says that isn't possible and gives this suggestion:
Read out the rest of the archive and write it to a new zip file.
How can I do this with ZipFile? Another Python based alternative like shutil or something similar would also be fine.
The examples below are designed to determine if a __MACOSX file is contained within a zip file. If it is, then a new zip archive is created and all the files that are not __MACOSX files are written to this new archive. This code can be extended to include .ds_store files.
Example One
from zipfile import ZipFile
original_zip = ZipFile ('original.zip', 'r')
new_zip = ZipFile ('new_archve.zip', 'w')
for item in original_zip.infolist():
buffer = original_zip.read(item.filename)
if not str(item.filename).startswith('__MACOSX/'):
new_zip.writestr(item, buffer)
new_zip.close()
original_zip.close()
Example Two
def check_archive_for_bad_filename(file):
zip_file = ZipFile(file, 'r')
for filename in zip_file.namelist():
print(filename)
if filename.startswith('__MACOSX/'):
return True
def remove_bad_filename_from_archive(original_file, temporary_file):
zip_file = ZipFile(original_file, 'r')
for item in zip_file.namelist():
buffer = zip_file.read(item)
if not item.startswith('__MACOSX/'):
if not os.path.exists(temporary_file):
new_zip = ZipFile(temporary_file, 'w')
new_zip.writestr(item, buffer)
new_zip.close()
else:
append_zip = ZipFile(temporary_file, 'a')
append_zip.writestr(item, buffer)
append_zip.close()
zip_file.close()
archive_filename = 'old.zip'
temp_filename = 'new.zip'
results = check_archive_for_bad_filename(archive_filename)
if results:
print('Removing MACOSX file from archive.')
remove_bad_filename_from_archive(archive_filename, temp_filename)
else:
print('No MACOSX file in archive.')