Extract files from zip without keeping the structure using python ZipFile?

Question

I try to extract all files from .zip containing subfolders in one folder. I want all the files from subfolders extract in only one folder without keeping the original struc

Answer 1

It is possible to iterate over the ZipFile.infolist(). On the returned ZipInfo objects you can then manipulate the filename to remove the directory part and finally extract it to a specified directory.

import glob
import zipfile
import shutil
import os

my_dir = "D:\\Download\\"
my_zip = "D:\\Download\\my_file.zip"

with zipfile.ZipFile(my_zip) as zip:
    for zip_info in zip.infolist():
        if zip_info.filename[-1] == '/':
            continue
        zip_info.filename = os.path.basename(zip_info.filename)
        zip.extract(zip_info, my_dir)