Problems Reading Zip of Shapefiles without loading memory - python-3.x

Question

I've been trying to adapt Andrew Gaidus shapefile reading routine for my needs. The Jupyter Notebook I'm using acts like it partitioned the disk of my MacBook Pro so I can't read or write to disk. Gaidus has a good procedure for avoiding using disk, but is written for prior version of Python.
Here is the code:
dls = "https://github.com/ItsMeLarry/Coursera_Capstone/raw/master/tl_2010_25009_tract00%202.zip"
lynntracts = ZipFile(io.BytesIO(urllib.request.urlopen(dls).read()))
print("Done")
filenames = [y for y in sorted(lynntracts.namelist()) for ending in ['dbf', 'prj', 'shp', 'shx'] if y.endswith(ending)]
#For some reason, I get 8, instead of 4, filenames. The first 4 start with __MACOSX. I get rid of those. The problem I
#have with the 'TypeError' occurs no matter which set of 4 files I use.
print(filenames[0], 'Example of the 4 files that I remove in the for loop')
for i in range(0,4):
del filenames[0]
print(filenames)
dbf, prj, shp, shx = [io.StringIO(ZipFile.read(filename)) for filename in filenames]
r = shapefile.Reader(shp=shp, shx=shx, dbf=dbf)
print(r.numRecords)
Opening with io.BytesIO cured the prior problem of byte/str collision. Now see the TypeError for the ZipFile.read. I get the same error if I use io.BytesIO when calling it. Here is error output followed by error info:
Done
__MACOSX/tl_2010_25009_tract00/._tl_2010_25009_tract00.dbf Example of the 4 files that I remove in the for loop
['tl_2010_25009_tract00/tl_2010_25009_tract00.dbf', 'tl_2010_25009_tract00/tl_2010_25009_tract00.prj', 'tl_2010_25009_tract00/tl_2010_25009_tract00.shp', 'tl_2010_25009_tract00/tl_2010_25009_tract00.shx']
TypeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
12 del filenames[0]
13 print(filenames)
---> 14 dbf, prj, shp, shx = [io.StringIO(ZipFile.read(filename)) for filename in filenames]
15 r = shapefile.Reader(shp=shp, shx=shx, dbf=dbf)
16 print(r.numRecords)
in (.0)
12 del filenames[0]
13 print(filenames)
---> 14 dbf, prj, shp, shx = [io.StringIO(ZipFile.read(filename)) for filename in filenames]
15 r = shapefile.Reader(shp=shp, shx=shx, dbf=dbf)
16 print(r.numRecords)
TypeError: read() missing 1 required positional argument: 'name'
Clearly, I am a beginner. I've come up empty handed trying to research this. Where do I go? What do I need to understand here? Thanks