- 1 year ago
Best way to go about searching a .txt in a zip?
To search for a specific .txt
file within a ZIP archive, you can use the zipfile
module in Python. Here's an example of how you can accomplish this:
pythonimport zipfile
def search_text_in_zip(zip_path, target_file):
with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'r') as zip_file:
for file_name in zip_file.namelist():
if file_name.endswith('.txt'):
with zip_file.open(file_name, 'r') as file:
contents = file.read().decode('utf-8')
if target_file in contents:
return True
return False
In the code above, the search_text_in_zip
function takes the path of the ZIP file (zip_path
) and the target file name (target_file
) you want to search for. It iterates through each file in the ZIP archive and checks if it has a .txt
extension. If it does, the contents of the file are read and checked for the presence of the target file content. If a match is found, the function returns True
. Otherwise, it returns False
.
You can use this function by passing the path to the ZIP file and the target file you want to search for. Here's an example usage:
pythonzip_path = '/path/to/archive.zip'
target_file = 'search_keyword.txt'
result = search_text_in_zip(zip_path, target_file)
if result:
print(f"The file '{target_file}' was found in the ZIP archive.")
else:
print(f"The file '{target_file}' was not found in the ZIP archive.")
Make sure to replace '/path/to/archive.zip'
with the actual path to your ZIP file and 'search_keyword.txt'
with the name or content you're searching for within the text files in the archive.