Maybe this helps: http://www.python.org/doc/2.5/tut/node13.html#SECTION0013400000000000000000 It's a multi threading example using zipfile and threading modules
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Nolan Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I'm part of team developing the Bundle Activity which will handle zip (and > other) archives and have run into a problem with the Zip library in Python. > We are currently trying to zip a list of files, and then have the program > perform other operations with the resulting zip file. The problem is that > Python seems to run asynchronously, so the program execution skips the zip > file completion and goes on to the next instructions (which is NOT what we > want). In other words, the instructions that handle the resulting zip file > get run before the zip file is completely finished. Our code looks like: > > myZip = zipfile.ZipFile(file_name, 'w') > try: > for a_file in file_list: > myZip.write(a_file) > finally: > myZip.close() > > # zip handling instructions > shutil.copy(file_name, journal_location) > # ... put the zip file in the journal ... > .... > > What can we do to have this work? > > Thanks, > > Nolan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar > > -- Emiliano Pastorino LATU - Plan Ceibal Av. Italia 6201 CP: 11500, Montevideo, Uruguay Tel: (598 2) 601 3724 int.: 469
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