How to read json zip files

read_json_zip.py

import zipfile


def read_json_zip(path):
    """
    Reads all json files inside of a zip file
    and appends the result in a list of dictionaries.
    """
    json_list = []
    
    zfile = zipfile.ZipFile(path)
    
    # Clean paths if the zip file was generated by mac os... 
    zpaths = [name for name in zfile.namelist() if '__MACOSX' not in name]
    
    for filename in zpaths:
        file = zfile.open(filename)   
        json_list.append(json.loads(file.read().decode("utf-8")))
        file.close()
    
    zfile.close()
    
    return json_list