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sneekula

Jan 18th, 2007 12:36 pm

File Compression

Since there is so much discussion on one of the threads on zipping/unzipping files and all the associated incompatibilities, is there a way to do this with Python and cut out the middleman?

vegaseat

Jan 18th, 2007 6:56 pm

Re: File Compression

Python offers a number of modules providing easy file compression and decompression. Here are code snippets for two of the popular compression formats ...
zipfile -->
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet629.html
tarfile -->
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet630.html

sneekula

Jan 21st, 2007 12:05 pm

Re: File Compression

Quote:

Originally Posted by vegaseat (Post 303189)

Now that is fairly easy code to work with. I didn't know it was that simple. Does anyone have a particular preference of a compression format?

sneekula

Jan 21st, 2007 2:20 pm

Re: File Compression

Another question, can zipfile archive several files like tarfile? How would you save the decompresed files?

vegaseat

Jan 21st, 2007 4:29 pm

Re: File Compression

Quote:

Originally Posted by sneekula (Post 304212)

Another question, can zipfile archive several files like tarfile? How would you save the decompresed files?

An omission on my part, I added another snippet to show you how to pack and unpack files to and from an archived zip file:
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet633.html

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