Password protected zip file using Python

Question

I'm trying to password protect zip files that I'm creating in a python script but have not been able to figure out why when I try to unzip it does not accept the password that the script created.

#!/usr/bin/env python2.6
import subprocess, random, os

file = "test.csv"
s = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz01234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ!@#$%^&*()?"
zipPass = "".join(random.sample(s,12))
print zipPass
devnull = open(os.devnull, 'w')
rc = subprocess.call("zip -P "+str(zipPass)+" "+str(file)+".zip "+str(file), shell=True, stdout=devnull, stderr=devnull)

When I run the script and try to unzip I get the following;

user@server:/tmp/zip> zip.py
xxxxxxxxx
user@server:/tmp/zip> unzip test.csv.zip
Archive:  test.csv.zip
[test.csv.zip] test.csv password:
password incorrect--reenter:

I've tried copying/pasting the password and also manually entering just to be sure.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Tested your script worked for me. just to be sure , remove created zip file run script and check if it is zip file which created by your script. I said this because you didn't define path to store zip file, so it is possible your file is created somewhere else and you are looking to wrong one.