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Compress and Extract ZIP Files Programmatically in Python

Create a ZIP archive with in-memory files and extract its contents to a directory using Python's stdlib zipfile and pathlib modules.

zip compression file-io
Python
import zipfile
from pathlib import Path
import tempfile
import os

def create_sample_zip(zip_path: str, files: dict) -> None:
    """Create a ZIP file containing the given files (name -> content mapping)."""
    with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_path, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) as zf:
        for filename, content in files.ite…
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