Using qrc to extract bundled zip files

Question

I tried this code where it extract the bundled zip files from compiled qrc but it gives me error:

OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: ':/files/file.zip'

Any help/suggestions?

import zipfile
import resources

zf = zipfile.ZipInfo(":/files/file.zip")
for file in zf.infolist():
    zf.extract(file)

Answer 1

zipfile is a module that is not designed to be used with Qt directly, instead you must extract the bytes and use a BytesIO as an intermediary:

import io
import sys
import zipfile

import resource_rc

from PyQt5 import QtCore


file = QtCore.QFile(":/files/file.zip")
if not file.open(QtCore.QFile.ReadOnly):
    print(file.errorString())
    sys.exit(-1)

ba = file.readAll()
f = io.BytesIO(ba)

with zipfile.ZipFile(f, "r") as zf:
    for file in zf.infolist():
        data = zf.extract(file)
        print(data)