Django. Retrieving and opening a zip file from HDD

Question

I have a path to a zip file. I don't know how to

• retrieve the file from the hard drive or
• open that zip file. Does anyone know?

The zip file is a zip file, but it's really a .epub file.

Answer 1

You don't need anything Django specific, just use the Python standard library, with the class ZipFile(file_name[, mode[, compression[, allowZip64]]]) from the zipfile package.

Answer 2

http://docs.python.org/library/zipfile.html

>>> import zipfile
>>> path = "example/path.epub"
>>> epub = zipfile.ZipFile(open(path))
>>> epub.namelist()
 ['some_file.txt']
>>> file = epub.open('some_file.txt')
>>> file.read()