Extract zip to memory, parse contents

Question

I want to read the contents of a zip file into memory rather than extracting them to disc, find a particular file in the archive, open the file and extract a line from it.

Answer 1

Thank you to everyone that contributed solutions. This is what ended up working for me:

zfile = ZipFile('name.zip', 'r')

        for name in zfile.namelist():
            if fnmatch.fnmatch(name, '*_readme.xml'):
                zopen = zfile.open(name)
                for line in zopen:
                    if re.match('(.*)(.*)(.*)', line):
                        print line