I know how to tar file using Python
import os
import tarfile
with tarfile.open('res.tar.gz','w:xz' )as tar :
tar.add('Pic.jpeg')
But I want to do that without create any tar.gz file, only get the results buffer.
Hiw can I do that please?
You could use this code to access result buffer
from io import BytesIO
import os
import tarfile
buf = BytesIO()
with tarfile.open('/tmp/res.tar.gz', 'w:gz', fileobj=buf) as f:
f.add("Pic.jpeg")
data = buf.getvalue()
I have managed to get my first python script to work which downloads a list of .ZIP files from a URL and then proceeds to extract the ZIP files and writes them to disk.
I am now at a loss to achieve the next step.
My primary goal is to download and extract the zip file and pass the contents (CSV data) via a TCP stream. I would prefer not to actually write any of the zip or extracted files to disk if I could get away with it.
Here is my current script which works but unfortunately has to write the files to disk.
import urllib, urllister
import zipfile
import urllib2
import os
import time
import pickle
# check for extraction directories existence
if not os.path.isdir('downloaded'):
os.makedirs('downloaded')
if not os.path.isdir('extracted'):
os.makedirs('extracted')
# open logfile for downloaded data and save to local variable
if os.path.isfile('downloaded.pickle'):
downloadedLog = pickle.load(open('downloaded.pickle'))
else:
downloadedLog = {'key':'value'}
# remove entries older than 5 days (to maintain speed)
# path of zip files
zipFileURL = "http://www.thewebserver.com/that/contains/a/directory/of/zip/files"
# retrieve list of URLs from the webservers
usock = urllib.urlopen(zipFileURL)
parser = urllister.URLLister()
parser.feed(usock.read())
usock.close()
parser.close()
# only parse urls
for url in parser.urls:
if "PUBLIC_P5MIN" in url:
# download the file
downloadURL = zipFileURL + url
outputFilename = "downloaded/" + url
# check if file already exists on disk
if url in downloadedLog or os.path.isfile(outputFilename):
print "Skipping " + downloadURL
continue
print "Downloading ",downloadURL
response = urllib2.urlopen(downloadURL)
zippedData = response.read()
# save data to disk
print "Saving to ",outputFilename
output = open(outputFilename,'wb')
output.write(zippedData)
output.close()
# extract the data
zfobj = zipfile.ZipFile(outputFilename)
for name in zfobj.namelist():
uncompressed = zfobj.read(name)
# save uncompressed data to disk
outputFilename = "extracted/" + name
print "Saving extracted file to ",outputFilename
output = open(outputFilename,'wb')
output.write(uncompressed)
output.close()
# send data via tcp stream
# file successfully downloaded and extracted store into local log and filesystem log
downloadedLog[url] = time.time();
pickle.dump(downloadedLog, open('downloaded.pickle', "wb" ))
Below is a code snippet I used to fetch zipped csv file, please have a look:
Python 2:
from StringIO import StringIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
from urllib import urlopen
resp = urlopen("http://www.test.com/file.zip")
myzip = ZipFile(StringIO(resp.read()))
for line in myzip.open(file).readlines():
print line
Python 3:
from io import BytesIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
from urllib.request import urlopen
# or: requests.get(url).content
resp = urlopen("http://www.test.com/file.zip")
myzip = ZipFile(BytesIO(resp.read()))
for line in myzip.open(file).readlines():
print(line.decode('utf-8'))
Here file is a string. To get the actual string that you want to pass, you can use zipfile.namelist(). For instance,
resp = urlopen('http://mlg.ucd.ie/files/datasets/bbc.zip')
myzip = ZipFile(BytesIO(resp.read()))
myzip.namelist()
# ['bbc.classes', 'bbc.docs', 'bbc.mtx', 'bbc.terms']
My suggestion would be to use a StringIO object. They emulate files, but reside in memory. So you could do something like this:
# get_zip_data() gets a zip archive containing 'foo.txt', reading 'hey, foo'
import zipfile
from StringIO import StringIO
zipdata = StringIO()
zipdata.write(get_zip_data())
myzipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(zipdata)
foofile = myzipfile.open('foo.txt')
print foofile.read()
# output: "hey, foo"
Or more simply (apologies to Vishal):
myzipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(StringIO(get_zip_data()))
for name in myzipfile.namelist():
[ ... ]
In Python 3 use BytesIO instead of StringIO:
import zipfile
from io import BytesIO
filebytes = BytesIO(get_zip_data())
myzipfile = zipfile.ZipFile(filebytes)
for name in myzipfile.namelist():
[ ... ]
I'd like to offer an updated Python 3 version of Vishal's excellent answer, which was using Python 2, along with some explanation of the adaptations / changes, which may have been already mentioned.
from io import BytesIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
import urllib.request
url = urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/cefact/locode/loc162txt.zip")
with ZipFile(BytesIO(url.read())) as my_zip_file:
for contained_file in my_zip_file.namelist():
# with open(("unzipped_and_read_" + contained_file + ".file"), "wb") as output:
for line in my_zip_file.open(contained_file).readlines():
print(line)
# output.write(line)
Necessary changes:
There's no StringIO module in Python 3 (it's been moved to io.StringIO). Instead, I use io.BytesIO]2, because we will be handling a bytestream -- Docs, also this thread.
urlopen:
"The legacy urllib.urlopen function from Python 2.6 and earlier has been discontinued; urllib.request.urlopen() corresponds to the old urllib2.urlopen.", Docs and this thread.
Note:
In Python 3, the printed output lines will look like so: b'some text'. This is expected, as they aren't strings - remember, we're reading a bytestream. Have a look at Dan04's excellent answer.
A few minor changes I made:
I use with ... as instead of zipfile = ... according to the Docs.
The script now uses .namelist() to cycle through all the files in the zip and print their contents.
I moved the creation of the ZipFile object into the with statement, although I'm not sure if that's better.
I added (and commented out) an option to write the bytestream to file (per file in the zip), in response to NumenorForLife's comment; it adds "unzipped_and_read_" to the beginning of the filename and a ".file" extension (I prefer not to use ".txt" for files with bytestrings). The indenting of the code will, of course, need to be adjusted if you want to use it.
Need to be careful here -- because we have a byte string, we use binary mode, so "wb"; I have a feeling that writing binary opens a can of worms anyway...
I am using an example file, the UN/LOCODE text archive:
What I didn't do:
NumenorForLife asked about saving the zip to disk. I'm not sure what he meant by it -- downloading the zip file? That's a different task; see Oleh Prypin's excellent answer.
Here's a way:
import urllib.request
import shutil
with urllib.request.urlopen("http://www.unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/cefact/locode/2015-2_UNLOCODE_SecretariatNotes.pdf") as response, open("downloaded_file.pdf", 'w') as out_file:
shutil.copyfileobj(response, out_file)
I'd like to add my Python3 answer for completeness:
from io import BytesIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
import requests
def get_zip(file_url):
url = requests.get(file_url)
zipfile = ZipFile(BytesIO(url.content))
files = [zipfile.open(file_name) for file_name in zipfile.namelist()]
return files.pop() if len(files) == 1 else files
write to a temporary file which resides in RAM
it turns out the tempfile module ( http://docs.python.org/library/tempfile.html ) has just the thing:
tempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile([max_size=0[,
mode='w+b'[, bufsize=-1[, suffix=''[,
prefix='tmp'[, dir=None]]]]]])
This
function operates exactly as
TemporaryFile() does, except that data
is spooled in memory until the file
size exceeds max_size, or until the
file’s fileno() method is called, at
which point the contents are written
to disk and operation proceeds as with
TemporaryFile().
The resulting file has one additional
method, rollover(), which causes the
file to roll over to an on-disk file
regardless of its size.
The returned object is a file-like
object whose _file attribute is either
a StringIO object or a true file
object, depending on whether
rollover() has been called. This
file-like object can be used in a with
statement, just like a normal file.
New in version 2.6.
or if you're lazy and you have a tmpfs-mounted /tmp on Linux, you can just make a file there, but you have to delete it yourself and deal with naming
Adding on to the other answers using requests:
# download from web
import requests
url = 'http://mlg.ucd.ie/files/datasets/bbc.zip'
content = requests.get(url)
# unzip the content
from io import BytesIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
f = ZipFile(BytesIO(content.content))
print(f.namelist())
# outputs ['bbc.classes', 'bbc.docs', 'bbc.mtx', 'bbc.terms']
Use help(f) to get more functions details for e.g. extractall() which extracts the contents in zip file which later can be used with with open.
All of these answers appear too bulky and long. Use requests to shorten the code, e.g.:
import requests, zipfile, io
r = requests.get(zip_file_url)
z = zipfile.ZipFile(io.BytesIO(r.content))
z.extractall("/path/to/directory")
Vishal's example, however great, confuses when it comes to the file name, and I do not see the merit of redefing 'zipfile'.
Here is my example that downloads a zip that contains some files, one of which is a csv file that I subsequently read into a pandas DataFrame:
from StringIO import StringIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
from urllib import urlopen
import pandas
url = urlopen("https://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/mdrm/pdf/MDRM.zip")
zf = ZipFile(StringIO(url.read()))
for item in zf.namelist():
print("File in zip: "+ item)
# find the first matching csv file in the zip:
match = [s for s in zf.namelist() if ".csv" in s][0]
# the first line of the file contains a string - that line shall de ignored, hence skiprows
df = pandas.read_csv(zf.open(match), low_memory=False, skiprows=[0])
(Note, I use Python 2.7.13)
This is the exact solution that worked for me. I just tweaked it a little bit for Python 3 version by removing StringIO and adding IO library
Python 3 Version
from io import BytesIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
import pandas
import requests
url = "https://www.nseindia.com/content/indices/mcwb_jun19.zip"
content = requests.get(url)
zf = ZipFile(BytesIO(content.content))
for item in zf.namelist():
print("File in zip: "+ item)
# find the first matching csv file in the zip:
match = [s for s in zf.namelist() if ".csv" in s][0]
# the first line of the file contains a string - that line shall de ignored, hence skiprows
df = pandas.read_csv(zf.open(match), low_memory=False, skiprows=[0])
It wasn't obvious in Vishal's answer what the file name was supposed to be in cases where there is no file on disk. I've modified his answer to work without modification for most needs.
from StringIO import StringIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
from urllib import urlopen
def unzip_string(zipped_string):
unzipped_string = ''
zipfile = ZipFile(StringIO(zipped_string))
for name in zipfile.namelist():
unzipped_string += zipfile.open(name).read()
return unzipped_string
Use the zipfile module. To extract a file from a URL, you'll need to wrap the result of a urlopen call in a BytesIO object. This is because the result of a web request returned by urlopen doesn't support seeking:
from urllib.request import urlopen
from io import BytesIO
from zipfile import ZipFile
zip_url = 'http://example.com/my_file.zip'
with urlopen(zip_url) as f:
with BytesIO(f.read()) as b, ZipFile(b) as myzipfile:
foofile = myzipfile.open('foo.txt')
print(foofile.read())
If you already have the file downloaded locally, you don't need BytesIO, just open it in binary mode and pass to ZipFile directly:
from zipfile import ZipFile
zip_filename = 'my_file.zip'
with open(zip_filename, 'rb') as f:
with ZipFile(f) as myzipfile:
foofile = myzipfile.open('foo.txt')
print(foofile.read().decode('utf-8'))
Again, note that you have to open the file in binary ('rb') mode, not as text or you'll get a zipfile.BadZipFile: File is not a zip file error.
It's good practice to use all these things as context managers with the with statement, so that they'll be closed properly.
Why does Python-2.7 on Windows truncate a file? The problem is well known with shutil.copyfile but I don't understand how to avoid it when I'm changing the first line. File size is unknown and could be huge.
Reference below but I'd prefer better exception handling with something like the following code:
import os
import sys
import shutil
with open(sys.argv[1], 'r+') as src:
line = src.readline()
with open(sys.argv[1], 'r+') as dst:
dst.write = sys.argv[1]+'\n'
shutil.copyfileobj(src, dst)
Reference: change first line of a file in python
You need to create the new version of the file as a NamedTemporaryFile. After you finish constructing it, you then rename it on top of the old file.
Code:
def insert_line_front(insert_filename, to_insert):
with open(insert_filename) as src, tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(
'w', dir=os.path.dirname(insert_filename), delete=False) as dst:
# Discard first line
src.readline()
# Save the new first line
dst.write(to_insert + '\n')
# Copy the rest of the file
shutil.copyfileobj(src, dst)
# remove old version
os.unlink(insert_filename)
# rename new version
os.rename(dst.name, insert_filename)
return()
Test Code:
import os
import shutil
import sys
import tempfile
# For noob - Function code goes here
filename = os.path.abspath(sys.argv[1])
insert_line_front(filename, filename)
Before:
/testcode/file1
"-3.588920831680E-02","1.601887196302E-01","1.302309112549E+02"
"3.739478886127E-01","1.782759875059E-01","6.490543365479E+01"
"3.298096954823E-01","6.939357519150E-02","2.112392578125E+02"
"-2.319437451661E-02","1.149862855673E-01","2.712340698242E+0
After:
/testcode/file2
"-3.588920831680E-02","1.601887196302E-01","1.302309112549E+02"
"3.739478886127E-01","1.782759875059E-01","6.490543365479E+01"
"3.298096954823E-01","6.939357519150E-02","2.112392578125E+02"
"-2.319437451661E-02","1.149862855673E-01","2.712340698242E+0
I want to get the content of a remote file with fabric, without creating a temporary file.
from StringIO import StringIO
from fabric.api import get
fd = StringIO()
get(remote_path, fd)
content=fd.getvalue()
With Python 3 (and fabric3), I get this fatal error when using io.StringIO: string argument expected, got 'bytes', apparently because Paramiko writes to the file-like object with bytes. So I switched to using io.BytesIO and it works:
from io import BytesIO
def _read_file(file_path, encoding='utf-8'):
io_obj = BytesIO()
get(file_path, io_obj)
return io_obj.getvalue().decode(encoding)
import tempfile
from fabric.api import get
with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as fd:
get(remote_path, fd)
fd.seek(0)
content=fd.read()
See: http://docs.python.org/2/library/tempfile.html#tempfile.TemporaryFile
and: http://docs.fabfile.org/en/latest/api/core/operations.html#fabric.operations.get
I want to use tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() to write some contents into it and then open that file. I have written following code:
tf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile()
tfName = tf.name
tf.seek(0)
tf.write(contents)
tf.flush()
but I am unable to open this file and see its contents in Notepad or similar application. Is there any way to achieve this? Why can't I do something like:
os.system('start notepad.exe ' + tfName)
at the end.
I don't want to save the file permanently on my system. I just want the contents to be opened as a text in Notepad or similar application and delete the file when I close that application.
This could be one of two reasons:
Firstly, by default the temporary file is deleted as soon as it is closed. To fix this use:
tf = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False)
and then delete the file manually once you've finished viewing it in the other application.
Alternatively, it could be that because the file is still open in Python Windows won't let you open it using another application.
Edit: to answer some questions from the comments:
As of the docs from 2 when using delete=False the file can be removed by using:
tf.close()
os.unlink(tf.name)
You can also use it with a context manager so that the file will be closed/deleted when it goes out of scope. It will also be cleaned up if the code in the context manager raises.
import tempfile
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() as temp:
temp.write('Some data')
temp.flush()
# do something interesting with temp before it is destroyed
Here is a useful context manager for this.
(In my opinion, this functionality should be part of the Python standard library.)
# python2 or python3
import contextlib
import os
#contextlib.contextmanager
def temporary_filename(suffix=None):
"""Context that introduces a temporary file.
Creates a temporary file, yields its name, and upon context exit, deletes it.
(In contrast, tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile() provides a 'file' object and
deletes the file as soon as that file object is closed, so the temporary file
cannot be safely re-opened by another library or process.)
Args:
suffix: desired filename extension (e.g. '.mp4').
Yields:
The name of the temporary file.
"""
import tempfile
try:
f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=suffix, delete=False)
tmp_name = f.name
f.close()
yield tmp_name
finally:
os.unlink(tmp_name)
# Example:
with temporary_filename() as filename:
os.system('echo Hello >' + filename)
assert 6 <= os.path.getsize(filename) <= 8 # depending on text EOL
assert not os.path.exists(filename)