{"library":"pyminizip","title":"Pyminizip","description":"Pyminizip is a Python wrapper for the minizip library, designed specifically to create password-encrypted ZIP files. It also provides functionality to uncompress these password-protected archives. The current version is 0.2.6. The project appears to be in maintenance mode with infrequent updates, as its last release was in December 2021.","language":"python","status":"maintenance","last_verified":"Sat May 16","install":{"commands":["pip install pyminizip"],"cli":{"name":"pyminizip","version":""}},"imports":["import pyminizip"],"auth":{"required":false,"env_vars":[]},"quickstart":{"code":"import pyminizip\nimport os\n\n# Create dummy files for demonstration\nwith open(\"file1.txt\", \"w\") as f:\n    f.write(\"This is file one.\")\n\nzip_filename = \"my_archive.zip\"\npassword = \"supersecretpassword\"\nextract_dir = \"extracted_files\"\n\n# 1. Compress a single file with password\npyminizip.compress(\n    \"file1.txt\",\n    None, # Prefix path (None to use relative path)\n    zip_filename,\n    password,\n    5 # Compression level (0 for default, 1-9 for speed/compression balance)\n)\nprint(f\"'{zip_filename}' created with password protection from 'file1.txt'.\")\n\n# 2. Extract the password-protected zip\nos.makedirs(extract_dir, exist_ok=True)\npyminizip.uncompress(\n    zip_filename,\n    password,\n    extract_dir,\n    0 # Not specifying 'withoutpath'\n)\nprint(f\"'{zip_filename}' uncompressed to '{extract_dir}'.\")\n\n# Clean up dummy files and directories\nos.remove(\"file1.txt\")\nos.remove(zip_filename)\nos.remove(os.path.join(extract_dir, \"file1.txt\"))\nos.rmdir(extract_dir)\n\nprint(\"Cleanup complete.\")","lang":"python","description":"This quickstart demonstrates how to compress a single file into a password-protected ZIP archive and then uncompress it using `pyminizip`.","tag":null,"tag_description":null,"last_tested":null,"results":[]},"compatibility":{"tag":null,"tag_description":null,"last_tested":"2026-05-16","installed_version":null,"pypi_latest":"0.2.6","is_stale":null,"summary":{"python_range":"3.10–3.9","success_rate":0,"avg_install_s":null,"avg_import_s":null,"wheel_type":null},"results":[{"runtime":"python:3.10-alpine","python_version":"3.10","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null},{"runtime":"python:3.10-slim","python_version":"3.10","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":2.2,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null},{"runtime":"python:3.11-alpine","python_version":"3.11","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null},{"runtime":"python:3.11-slim","python_version":"3.11","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":2.1,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null},{"runtime":"python:3.12-alpine","python_version":"3.12","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null},{"runtime":"python:3.12-slim","python_version":"3.12","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":3.1,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null},{"runtime":"python:3.13-alpine","python_version":"3.13","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null},{"runtime":"python:3.13-slim","python_version":"3.13","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":2.7,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null},{"runtime":"python:3.9-alpine","python_version":"3.9","os_libc":"alpine (musl)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":null,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null},{"runtime":"python:3.9-slim","python_version":"3.9","os_libc":"slim (glibc)","variant":"pyminizip","exit_code":1,"wheel_type":null,"failure_reason":"build_error","import_side_effects":null,"install_time_s":2.7,"import_time_s":null,"mem_mb":null,"disk_size":null}]}}