[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I following an example on how to zip files from the www.devshed.com
> site.
> I can create a zip package, however I am not getting any compression.
> 120M file stays 120M within the zip package.
> I need to know how to set or activate the compression values.
> here is the code I'm using:
>
>
>>import zipfile
>>zip = zipfile.ZipFile('<path/zipfilename.zip>', 'w')
>>zip.write('<path/filename.txt>')
>>zip.close()
>
>
> Any help would be gratly appreciated
>
It's not that difficult. The zipfile module uses null compression by
deafult, so you need to change the second line to read
zip = zipfile.ZipFile('<path/zipfilename.zip>', 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
That will create a comrpessed zip file.
regards
Steve
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