Unzip all zipped files in a folder to that same folder using Python 2.7.5

Question

I would like to write a simple script to iterate through all the files in a folder and unzip those that are zipped (.zip) to that same folder. For this project, I have a folder

Answer 1

The accepted answer works great!

Just to extend the idea to unzip all the files with .zip extension within all the sub-directories inside a directory the following code seems to work well:

import os
import zipfile

for path, dir_list, file_list in os.walk(dir_path):
    for file_name in file_list:
        if file_name.endswith(".zip"):
            abs_file_path = os.path.join(path, file_name)

            # The following three lines of code are only useful if 
            # a. the zip file is to unzipped in it's parent folder and 
            # b. inside the folder of the same name as the file

            parent_path = os.path.split(abs_file_path)[0]
            output_folder_name = os.path.splitext(abs_file_path)[0]
            output_path = os.path.join(parent_path, output_folder_name)

            zip_obj = zipfile.ZipFile(abs_file_path, 'r')
            zip_obj.extractall(output_path)
            zip_obj.close()