File Compression

[sneekula]

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]

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]

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]

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

[vegaseat]

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