How to unzip a zip file in Jupyter/Google Colab?

The problem is solved after having hours of search over google…

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I was solving a Deep Learning assignment using Google Colab. I had a dataset of images contained in a different folder for each image in Google drive and for the label of the dataset, I was having a data frame consisting of path and label.

So, I was supposed to use ImageDataGenerator’s method flow_from_dataframe() .

That was the reason that instead of mounting Google drive I downloaded the zip into the RAM of Google Colab using the CurlWget extension(very fast downloading). Because flow_from_dataframe() will take a lot of time to get the image from Google drive.

Now, the problem was to unzip the downloaded zip file in the Google Colab.

How I downloaded the file?

downloaded file

Solution:

Let’s unzip the above file

1. install patool:

install patool

2. import patool:

import patool as patoolib

3. use patoolib.extract_archive()

extract_archive()

Note: You can unzip almost every type of zipped file.

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