Downloading and unzipping a .zip file without writing to disk

Question

I have managed to get my first python script to work which downloads a list of .ZIP files from a URL and then proceeds to extract the ZIP files and writes them to disk.

Answer 1

I'd like to add my Python3 answer for completeness:

from io import BytesIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
import requests

def get_zip(file_url):
    url = requests.get(file_url)
    zipfile = ZipFile(BytesIO(url.content))
    zip_names = zipfile.namelist()
    if len(zip_names) == 1:
        file_name = zip_names.pop()
        extracted_file = zipfile.open(file_name)
        return extracted_file
    return [zipfile.open(file_name) for file_name in zip_names]