code: def extract_zipped_paths(path):
      
      if os.path.exists(path):
          # this is already a valid path, no need to do anything further
          return path
  
      # find the first valid part of the provided path and treat that as a zip archive
      # assume the rest of the path is the name of a member in the archive
      archive, member = os.path.split(path)
      while archive and not os.path.exists(archive):
          archive, prefix = os.path.split(archive)
          member = '/'.join([prefix, member])
  
      if not zipfile.is_zipfile(archive):
          return path
  
      zip_file = zipfile.ZipFile(archive)
      if member not in zip_file.namelist():
          return path
  
      # we have a valid zip archive and a valid member of that archive
      tmp = tempfile.gettempdir()
      extracted_path = os.path.join(tmp, *member.split('/'))
      if not os.path.exists(extracted_path):
          extracted_path = zip_file.extract(member, path=tmp)
  
      return extracted_path
docs: Replace nonexistent paths that look like they refer to a member of a zip
      archive with the location of an extracted copy of the target, or else
      just return the provided path unchanged.