Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> But when I run this script in Windows XP, I get an error while >> executing the above zip command. > > Would you like to tell us what error you get?
I presume the error he's seeing is something along the line of: "zip: Bad command or filename." That's basically because there is no commandline builtin for zipping up files on Windows, and I don't know of WinZIP or any of the InfoZIP derived GUIs installing a command-line zipper. What might help you though (and keep you platform-independent): http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/module-zipfile.html --- Heiko. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list