I have the following directory, in the parent dir there are several folders lets say ABCD and within each folder many zips with names as displayed and the letter of the parent folder included in the name along with other info:
-parent--A-xxxAxxxx_timestamp.zip
-xxxAxxxx_timestamp.zip
-xxxAxxxx_timestamp.zip
--B-xxxBxxxx_timestamp.zip
-xxxBxxxx_timestamp.zip
-xxxBxxxx_timestamp.zip
--C-xxxCxxxx_timestamp.zip
-xxxCxxxx_timestamp.zip
-xxxCxxxx_timestamp.zip
--D-xxxDxxxx_timestamp.zip
-xxxDxxxx_timestamp.zip
-xxxDxxxx_timestamp.zip
I need to unzip only selected zips in this tree and place them in the same directory with the same name without the .zip extension.
Output:
-parent--A-xxxAxxxx_timestamp
-xxxAxxxx_timestamp
-xxxAxxxx_timestamp
--B-xxxBxxxx_timestamp
-xxxBxxxx_timestamp
-xxxBxxxx_timestamp
--C-xxxCxxxx_timestamp
-xxxCxxxx_timestamp
-xxxCxxxx_timestamp
--D-xxxDxxxx_timestamp
-xxxDxxxx_timestamp
-xxxDxxxx_timestamp
My effort:
for path in glob.glob('./*/xxx*xxxx*'): ##walk the dir tree and find the files of interest
zipfile=os.path.basename(path) #save the zipfile path
zip_ref=zipfile.ZipFile(path, 'r')
zip_ref=extractall(zipfile.replace(r'.zip', '')) #unzip to a folder without the .zip extension
The problem is that i dont know how to save the A,B,C,D etc to include them in the path where the files will be unzipped. Thus, the unzipped folders are created in the parent directory. Any ideas?
The code that you have seems to be working fine, you just to make sure that you are not overriding variable names and using the correct ones. The following code works perfectly for me
import os
import zipfile
import glob
for path in glob.glob('./*/xxx*xxxx*'): ##walk the dir tree and find the files of interest
zf = os.path.basename(path) #save the zipfile path
zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile(path, 'r')
zip_ref.extractall(path.replace(r'.zip', '')) #unzip to a folder without the .zip extension