download a zip file to a local drive and extract all files to a destination folder using python 2.5

Question

I am trying to download a zip file to a local drive and extract all files to a destination folder.

so i have come up with solution but it is only to \"download\" a f

Answer 1

The shortest way i've found so far, is to use +alex answer, but with ZipFile.extractall() instead of the loop:

from zipfile import ZipFile
from urllib import urlretrieve
from tempfile import mktemp

filename = mktemp('.zip')
destDir = mktemp()
theurl = 'http://www.example.com/file.zip'
name, hdrs = urlretrieve(theurl, filename)
thefile=ZipFile(filename)
thefile.extractall(destDir)
thefile.close()