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.

def extract_zipped_paths(path):
    """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.
    """
    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