Extracting a zipfile to memory?
How do I extract a zip to memory? My attempt (returning None on .getvalue() ): from zipfile import ZipFile from StringIO import StringIO def extract_zip(input_zip): return StringIO(ZipFile(input_zip).extractall()) mata extractall extracts to the file system, so you won't get what you want. To extract a file in memory, use the ZipFile.read() method. If you really need the full content in memory, you could do something like: def extract_zip(input_zip): input_zip=ZipFile(input_zip) return {name: input_zip.read(name) for name in input_zip.namelist()} Deviacium Frequently working with in-memory