That was it. Thanks so much! I was looking at the docs and didn't think that applied to the path that was stored. Thanks Again! -Nick
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Kent Johnson <ken...@tds.net> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Nick Hird <nrh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was reading another thread and decided to work on a little project >> to backup some files on a regular basis. Since this will mostly be on >> windows i am using zipfile and i can create my zip file just fine and >> all the files are there, it works great! My question is however, is >> there a way to NOT store the path in the zip file? When i decompress >> the files, i would like them to not be associated with a particular >> folder or path, just the files > > ZipFile.write() takes an optional arcname parameter, this is the name > the file wll have in the archive. If you pass the plain file name (no > path components) as arcname I think it will do what you want. > > Kent > -- --Nick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
