12.4.3 ZipInfo Objects

Python 2.5

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12.4.3 ZipInfo Objects

Instances of the ZipInfo class are returned by the getinfo() and infolist() methods of ZipFile objects. Each object stores information about a single member of the ZIP archive.

Instances have the following attributes:

filename: Name of the file in the archive.

date_time

The time and date of the last modification to the archive member. This is a tuple of six values:

Index	Value
`0`	Year
`1`	Month (one-based)
`2`	Day of month (one-based)
`3`	Hours (zero-based)
`4`	Minutes (zero-based)
`5`	Seconds (zero-based)

compress_type: Type of compression for the archive member.

comment: Comment for the individual archive member.

extra: Expansion field data. The PKZIP Application Note contains some comments on the internal structure of the data contained in this string.