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?
sneekula
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Jump to PostPython 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
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vegaseat
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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
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Nearly a Posting Maven
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
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
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Another question, can zipfile archive several files like tarfile? How would you save the decompresed files?
vegaseat
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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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