Archiving files with zipfile.ZipFile

bvdet

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Originally Posted by cuties

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 the_records = []
 
for record in tick:

    query = 'select location from download_file where d_id = %s' %record

    print "<br>", query

    curs.execute(query)

    a= curs.fetchone()

    print "<br>", a[0]

    the_records.append(a[0])
 
print "<br>To be zipped: ", the_records
 
def zipdir():

    for b in the_records:

        print "<br>In record: ", b

        try:

            zip.write(the_records + b)

        except IOError:

            None

if __name__=='__main__':
 
    zip = zipfile.ZipFile("C:\\zipfile.zip", 'w')

    zipdir('')

    zip.close

Following is an example that may provide a solution to you:

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"""

Function makeArchive is a wrapper for the Python class zipfile.ZipFile

'fileList' is a list of file names - full path each name

'archive' is the file name for the archive with a full path

"""
 
import zipfile, os
 
def makeArchive(fileList, archive):

    try:

        # ZipFile will accept a file name or file object

        a = zipfile.ZipFile(archive, 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

        for f in fileList:

            print "archiving file %s" % (f)

            a.write(f, os.path.basename(f))

        a.close()

        return True

    except: return False
 
if __name__== '__main__':
 
    fileList = ['H:/TEMP/temsys/Anchor Rod Plans.txt',

                'H:/TEMP/temsys/abc1.txt',

                'H:/TEMP/temsys/abc2.txt',

                'H:/TEMP/temsys/abc2.txt',

                'H:/TEMP/temsys/abc3.txt',

                'H:/TEMP/temsys/abc4.txt'

                ]
 
    arcfile_name = 'H:/TEMP/temsys/zipped_files.zip'
 
    if makeArchive(fileList, arcfile_name):

        print arcfile_name, "was created.\n"

        # check the new archive file

        f = zipfile.ZipFile(arcfile_name, 'r')

        for info in f.infolist():

            print info.filename, info.date_time, info.file_size, info.compress_size

        f.close()

    else:

        print "There was an error"
 
"""Sample Output

>>> archiving file H:/TEMP/temsys/Anchor Rod Plans.txt

archiving file H:/TEMP/temsys/abc1.txt

archiving file H:/TEMP/temsys/abc2.txt

archiving file H:/TEMP/temsys/abc2.txt

archiving file H:/TEMP/temsys/abc3.txt

archiving file H:/TEMP/temsys/abc4.txt

H:/TEMP/temsys/zipped_files.zip was created.
 
Anchor Rod Plans.txt (2005, 10, 19, 19, 17, 16) 1657 828

abc1.txt (2007, 1, 5, 11, 16, 46) 61 46

abc2.txt (2007, 1, 5, 11, 1, 2) 43 41

abc2.txt (2007, 1, 5, 11, 1, 2) 43 41

abc3.txt (2007, 1, 5, 11, 0, 46) 43 39

abc4.txt (2007, 1, 5, 11, 0, 30) 25 25

>>> """

HTH :-)

cuties

thanks..... i'll try this example..... here is another code that i did.....i hope you could comment on it..... as i told you before there is checkbox something like our email and wen a button is pushed after the checkbox is ticked....it'll download the files from its location and created a zip file....so here is the codes if more that 1 box is checked or if only 1 box is checked......

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c = len(str(tick[0])) 
 
if c > 1:
 
    print "<p>The d_id that is checked is:" , tick, "</p>"
 
    the_records = []
 
    for record in tick:
 
    query = 'select location from download_file where d_id = %s' %record

    print "<br>", query 

    curs.execute(query)

    a= curs.fetchone()

    print "<br>", a[0]

    the_records.append(a[0])
 
    print "<p>To be zipped: ", the_records, "</p>"
 
    zip = zipfile.ZipFile("C:\\zipfile.zip", 'w')
 
    for each in the_records:
 
    print "<p> Each: " , each, "</p>" 

    try:

        zip.write(each)

    except IOError:

        None
 
    zip.close()
 
elif c == 1:
 
    the_records = []
 
    print "<p>The d_id that is checked is:" , tick, "</p>"
 
    query = 'select location from download_file where d_id = %s' %tick
 
    print "<p>", query, "</p>"
 
    curs.execute(query)

    a= curs.fetchone()

    print "<br>", a[0]

    the_records.append(a[0])
 
    print "<p>To be zipped: ", the_records, "</p>"
 
    zip = zipfile.ZipFile("C:\\Temp\\zipfile.zip", 'w')
 
    for each in the_records:
 
    print "<p> Each: " , each, "</p>"

    try:

        zip.write(each)

    except IOError:

        None
 
    zip.close()

but now my problem is that each time da button is pushed...it overwrites the old zip file...so i don't know how could i avoid this....pls help with this.....and don't forget to comment on this new codes....thanks for helping so much.....

bvdet

Three things come to mind -
Ask the user for a zip file name.
Check to see if the zip file exists (os.path.isfile(path_file)). If it does, change the filename to something else like zipfile1.zip or zipfile2.zip.
Instantiate zipfile.ZipFile in append mode ('a' instead of 'w'). All files will be added to the same file.

Sorry I cannot be more help with CGI/HTML issues.

cuties

Thanks..... will give it a try but i don't want the user to give an input as this will hv 2 b in another cgi then which i would like to avoid......thanks once again for really helpin me out.....

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