Unzipping files in python

Question

I read through the zipfile modules docs, but couldn't understand how to unzip a file, only how to zip a file. How do I unzip all the contents of a zip file into the same directory?

Answer 1

Simply use this command:

import zipfile

with zipfile.ZipFile(path_to_zip_file, 'r') as zip_ref:

    zip_ref.extractall(directory_to_extract_to)