recursive zip file extraction with dcm dropout? woo!

gistfile1.txt

import zipfile
from pathlib import Path

# Pathlib Friendly (maybe required)
def extract(filename):
    z = zipfile.ZipFile(filename)
    for file in z.namelist():
        # Ignore anything that's not a zip... and lets recurse
        if ".zip" in file.lower():
            # Create a subdirectory to hold our zip:
            newDirectory = filename.parents[0]/file.split('.')[0]
            newDirectory.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
            #If you need debug statements to spam you, uncomment this
            #print("Making the directory " + (filename.parents[0]/file.split('.')[0]).as_posix() + "and unzipping into it...")
            # Lets place this zip into the new directory:
            z.extract(file,newDirectory.as_posix())
            # Send this new zip back through this function, lets get recursive
            extract(newDirectory/file)
        # If it's not a zip we're looking at, lets extract DCMs to our working directory
        elif ".dcm" in file.lower():
            z.extract(file,filename.parents[0].as_posix())


filename = Path("./data/aFolderThatContainsZips")
extract(filename)