python library to unzip files code example

Example 1: how to unzip files using zipfile module python

import zipfile
with zipfile.ZipFile("file.zip","r") as zip_ref:
    zip_ref.extractall("targetdir")

Example 2: python zip extract directory

import zipfile

archive = zipfile.ZipFile('archive.zip')

for file in archive.namelist():
    if file.startswith('foo/'):
        archive.extract(file, 'destination_path')