zip files support in Python

CLI

The zipfile module provides a simple command-line interface to interact with ZIP archives.

Create zip archive from files:

python3 -m zipfile -c etc.zip /etc/hosts /etc/issue /etc/passwd

Create zip archive from directories:

python3 -m zipfile -c yum.zip /etc/yum

If you want to extract a zip archive into the specified directory, use the -e option:

python3 -m zipfile -e yum.zip yum-dir/

For a list of the files in a zip archive, use the -l option:

python3 -m zipfile -l etc.zip

Test whether the zipfile is valid or not:

python3 -m zipfile -t yum.zip

Python code

from zipfile import ZipFile

with ZipFile('yum.zip', 'r') as zip_obj:
  zip_obj.extractall()                    # extract in current directory
# zip_obj.extractall(path="./yumfolder")  # extract in ./yumfolder" directory

# list of the files in a zip archive
print(zip_obj.namelist())

Documentation

https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html