7.18.3 ZipInfo Objects

7.18.3 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.

create_system

System which created ZIP archive.

create_version

PKZIP version which created ZIP archive.

extract_version

PKZIP version needed to extract archive.

reserved

Must be zero.

flag_bits

ZIP flag bits.

volume

Volume number of file header.

internal_attr

Internal attributes.

external_attr

External file attributes.

header_offset

Byte offset to the file header.

file_offset

Byte offset to the start of the file data.

CRC

CRC-32 of the uncompressed file.

compress_size

Size of the compressed data.

file_size

Size of the uncompressed file.

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Release 2.4, documentation updated on 29 November 2004.