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A replacement for Python's zipfile
that can read and write AES encrypted
zip files. Forked from Python 3.7's zipfile
module, it features the same
zipfile
API from that time (most notably, lacking support for
pathlib
-compatible wrappers that were introduced in Python 3.8).
.. code-block:: bash
pip install pyzipper
.. code-block:: python
import pyzipper
secret_password = b'lost art of keeping a secret'
with pyzipper.AESZipFile('new_test.zip', 'w', compression=pyzipper.ZIP_LZMA, encryption=pyzipper.WZ_AES) as zf: zf.setpassword(secret_password) zf.writestr('test.txt', "What ever you do, don't tell anyone!")
with pyzipper.AESZipFile('new_test.zip') as zf: zf.setpassword(secret_password) my_secrets = zf.read('test.txt')
The strength of the AES encryption can be configure to be 128, 192 or 256 bits.
By default it is 256 bits. Use the setencryption()
method to specify the
encryption kwargs:
.. code-block:: python
import pyzipper
secret_password = b'lost art of keeping a secret'
with pyzipper.AESZipFile('new_test.zip', 'w', compression=pyzipper.ZIP_LZMA) as zf: zf.setpassword(secret_password) zf.setencryption(pyzipper.WZ_AES, nbits=128) zf.writestr('test.txt', "What ever you do, don't tell anyone!")
with pyzipper.AESZipFile('new_test.zip') as zf: zf.setpassword(secret_password) my_secrets = zf.read('test.txt')
Official Python ZipFile documentation is available here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipfile.html
The docs skeleton was created with Cookiecutter_ and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage
_ project template.
.. _Cookiecutter: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
.. _audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage
: https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage
FAQs
AES encryption for zipfile.
We found that pyzipper demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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