file-archive-extract

🗜️ File Archive & Extract

Two Python scripts for creating zip archives from folders and extracting zip archives to a destination.

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✨ Features

Archive.py

• Compress a folder (or set of files) into a .zip archive
• Preserves the internal folder structure
• Progress output during archiving

Extract.py

• Extract any .zip file to a specified destination folder
• Handles nested folder structures correctly
• Reports extracted file count on completion

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🖥️ Tech Stack

Category	Technology
Language	Python 3
Compression	zipfile (built-in)
File I/O	os, pathlib (built-in)

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🚀 Getting Started

# Archive a folder
python Archive.py

# Extract a zip file
python Extract.py

Both scripts prompt you interactively for input/output paths.

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📝 What I Learned

• Python's zipfile module for compression/decompression
• Recursive directory traversal with os.walk()
• Building small, focused utility scripts
• File path handling across platforms

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