Extract Google Drive zip from Google colab notebook

Question

I already have a zip of (2K images) dataset on a google drive. I have to use it in a ML training algorithm. Below Code extracts the content in a string format:

Answer 1

To extract Google Drive zip from a Google colab notebook:

import zipfile
from google.colab import drive

drive.mount('/content/drive/')

zip_ref = zipfile.ZipFile("/content/drive/My Drive/ML/DataSet.zip", 'r')
zip_ref.extractall("/tmp")
zip_ref.close()