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I've written some Python code that fetches a zip file from the web and into a string:

In [1]: zip_contents[0:5]
Out[1]: 'PK\x03\x04\x14'

I see there's a zipfile library, but I'm having trouble finding a function in it that I can just pass a bunch of raw zip data. It seems to want to read it from a file.

Do I really need to dump this to a temp file, or is there a way around it?

mike
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zipfile.ZipFile accepts any file-like object, so you can use StringIO (2.x) or BytesIO (3.x):

try:
  from cStringIO import StringIO
except:
  from StringIO import StringIO
import zipfile

fp = StringIO('PK\x03\x04\x14')
zfp = zipfile.ZipFile(fp, "r")
John Millikin
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Wrap your string in a cStringIO object. It looks, acts, and quacks like a file object, but resides in memory.

Eevee
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