durumdara wrote: > Hi Larry! > >> durumdara wrote: >> You can easily find out roughly how many bytes are in your .ZIP archive >> by using following: >> >> zipbytes=Zobj.fp.tell() >> > > The main problem is not this. > I want to write a backup software, and I want to: > - see the progress in the processing of the actual file > - abort the progress if I need it > If I compress small files, I don't have problems. > But with larger files (10-20 MB) I get problems, because the zipfile's > method is uninterruptable. > Only one way I have to control this: if I modify the ZipFile module. > > dd > > On Jun 7, 8:26 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On my 3 year old 3Ghz Pentium III it takes about 8 seconds to zip 20Mb file. So what is the problem? Not updating the process for 8-10 seconds should be just fine for most applications. -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
