Unzip Functionality

This function is used to unzip a zip file into a specified directory.

Technology Stack : zipfile, os

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def zipfile_extract(file_path, extract_to_dir):
    """
    Extracts the contents of a zipfile to a specified directory.

    Args:
        file_path (str): The path to the zipfile.
        extract_to_dir (str): The directory where the contents of the zipfile should be extracted.
    """
    import zipfile
    import os

    with zipfile.ZipFile(file_path, 'r') as zip_ref:
        zip_ref.extractall(extract_to_dir)

    if not os.listdir(extract_to_dir):
        raise ValueError("No files were extracted.")