Fix Python – Python: Open file in zip without temporarily extracting it

Question

How can I open files in a zip archive without extracting them first?

I’m using pygame. To save disk space, I have all the images zipped up.
Is it possible to load a given image directly from the zip file?
For example:
pygame.image.load('zipFile/img_01')

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Answer

Vincent Povirk’s answer won’t work completely;

import zipfile
archive = zipfile.ZipFile('images.zip', 'r')
imgfile = archive.open('img_01.png')
...

You have to change it in:

import zipfile
archive = zipfile.ZipFile('images.zip', 'r')
imgdata = archive.read('img_01.png')
...

For details read the ZipFile docs here.

This question is answered By – Jellema

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