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?

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

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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