Python in-memory zip library

Question

Is there a Python library that allows manipulation of zip archives in memory, without having to use actual disk files?

The ZipFile library does not allow you to upd

Answer 1

According to the Python docs:

class zipfile.ZipFile(file[, mode[, compression[, allowZip64]]])

  Open a ZIP file, where file can be either a path to a file (a string) or a file-like object. 

So, to open the file in memory, just create a file-like object (perhaps using BytesIO).

file_like_object = io.BytesIO(my_zip_data)
zipfile_ob = zipfile.ZipFile(file_like_object)