Extract files with invalid characters in filename with Python

Question

I use python\'s zipfile module to extract a .zip archive (Let\'s take this file at http://img.dafont.com/dl/?f=akvaleir for example.)

f = zipfile.ZipFile(\'a         


        

Answer 1

Instead of the extract method, use the open method and save the resulting pseudofile to disk under whatever name you wish, for example with shutil.copyfileobj.