Python ZipFile Path Separators

Question

If I unzip a Zip file using the Python ZipFile library, where the file was created on Windows, but my code runs on Unix-like, will path separators always be Unix-style?

Answer 1

Internally, ZipFile stores the slash as required by the zip file .

Outwardly, they are converted using os.sep to match what is normally expected on this platform.

Code References:

• http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/zipfile.py#l295
• http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/zipfile.py#l1046