ZipArchive

ZipArchive class for easy/quick data storage (text and json files).

Installation

1. Clone repo

$ git clone https://github.com/missinglinks/zip_archive.git

2. Install with pip

$ cd zip_archive
$ pip install .

Usage

from zip_archive import ZipArchive

z = ZipArchive("test.zip")

data = { 
    "key1": "foo",
    "key2": "bar"
}

if "data.json" not in z:
    z["data.json"] = data

assert data == z["data.json"]

Options

Upon initialization various parameters can be given to customize the behaviour of the ZipArchive class.

• overwrite (default: False): If a zipfile with the given filename exists, it will be truncated (i.e. overwritten)
• json_ext (default: ".json"): Files ending with json_ext will be piped through json.loads upon retrieval
• json_indent (default: 4): The default indentation for json files is 4.

Limitations

• You cannot remove/change file in the archive

License

MIT

Copyright

Peter Mühleder and Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2019