I am trying to write a script which can unzip something like this:

• Great grandfather.zip
  • Grandfather.zip
    • Father.zip
      • Child.txt

What I have so far:

from os import listdir
import os
from zipfile import ZipFile, is_zipfile

#Current Directory  
mypath = '.'


def extractor(path):
    for file in listdir(path):
        if(is_zipfile(file)):
            print(file)
            with ZipFile(file,'r') as zipObj:
                path = os.path.splitext(file)[0]
                zipObj.extractall(path)
                extractor(path)

extractor(mypath)

I can unzip great grandfather and when I call the extractor again with grandfather as path. It doesn’t go inside the if statement. Even though, I can list the contents of grandfather.

>Solution :

Replace extractor(path) by these two lines:

• os.chdir(path)
• extractor('.')

So your code becomes:

from os import listdir
import os
from zipfile import ZipFile, is_zipfile

#Current Directory  
mypath = '.'


def extractor(path):
    for file in listdir(path):
        if(is_zipfile(file)):
            print(file)
            with ZipFile(file,'r') as zipObj:
                path = os.path.splitext(file)[0]
                zipObj.extractall(path)
                os.chdir(path)
                extractor('.')

extractor(mypath)