Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit4.readnews.com!panix!gordon
From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: unzipping a zipx file
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:56:12 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Lines: 22
Message-ID: <kks40c$828$1@reader1.panix.com>
References: <mailman.834.1366394500.3114.python-list@python.org> <kks2mi$54d$1@reader1.panix.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com
X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1366397772 8264 166.84.1.2 (19 Apr 2013 18:56:12 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:56:12 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: nn/6.7.3
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:43929

In <kks2mi$54d$1@reader1.panix.com> John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> writes:

> In <mailman.834.1366394500.3114.python-list@python.org> "b_erickson1" <brian@dashley.net> writes:

> >             ozFile = open(filename,'w')
> >             ozFile.write(zFile.read(filename))
> >             ozFile.close()

> Perhaps you want to use zFile.extract() instead of zFile.read()?

No, that's not it.  Your code should work.

You said the output file 'looks encrypted'.  Is the source zip file
encrypted?

Is the source text file something other than plain ASCII?

-- 
John Gordon                   A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
gordon@panix.com              B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
                                -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies"