Extracting zip file contents to specific directory in Python 2.7

I think you've just got a mixup here. Should probably be something like the following:

import zipfilefh = open('test.zip', 'rb')z = zipfile.ZipFile(fh)for name in z.namelist():    outpath = "C:\\"    z.extract(name, outpath)fh.close()

and if you just want to extract all the files:

import zipfilewith zipfile.ZipFile('test.zip', "r") as z:    z.extractall("C:\\")

Use pip install zipfile36 for recent versions of Python

import zipfile36

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I tried the other answers in this thread, but the final solution for me was simply:

zfile = zipfile.ZipFile('filename.zip')zfile.extractall(optional_target_folder)

Look at extractall, but use it only with trustworthy zip files.

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Adding to secretmike's answer above with support for python 2.6 for extracting all files.

import zipfileimport contextlibwith contextlib.closing(zipfile.ZipFile('test.zip', "r")) as z:   z.extractall("C:\\")

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