Extract Zip files to one folder

Yaron_YosefCohen

Hi everyone,

Continuously to Unzip files from directory tree ,when i try to  extract zip files that contain files with same names in it to one folder , some files got lost because duplication names. I use this code (i work with python 2.7.8 and arcmap 10.3):

import zipfile,fnmatch,os

# EXTRACT ALL ZIP FILES IN DIRECTORY TREE TO ONE SPECIFIC FOLDER 

rootPath = r"C:\Project"
pattern = '*.zip'
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(rootPath):
    for filename in fnmatch.filter(files, pattern):
        print(os.path.join(root, filename))
        outpath = r"C:\Project\gis\layers\taba\new"  
        print root
        print filename
        zipfile.ZipFile(os.path.join(root, filename)).extractall(r"C:\Project\gis\layers\taba\new")

I don't know how to overcome that issue

Thank for any help

DanPatterson_Retired

You are really getting muddled in retaining your paths.  Might I suggest that you do the following

1. collect the filenames into a list first
2. remove or rename any duplicates
3. process the filenames in the previous step last

putting all this into a function will help.  Have a look a my blog post on finding files with a particular file extension.

Before I forget ... # 4 ... Where did that script go?