I guess that the best approach is calling a shell tool with something
like os.popen(). But I cannot seem to find any free tools.
Winzip has a command line option, but for registered users only. That is
bothersome if I want to install the script on other machines.
The same for pkwares zip. At least I cannot seem to find a free version
of it.
gzip seems able to do the trick, but I need to install Cygwin, that's
also a bother ;-)
Can it really be that there is no free .zip command line tool for
Windows, or are my Googling skills just to poor?
Ideally it should just be a single .exe file that I can put in the
folder with my script, for easy distribution.
Or is there a more Pythonic approach?
regards Max M 7 2137
did you look at the module zipfile? This seems to be able to everything
you describe?
regards Gerrit I guess that the best approach is calling a shell tool with something like os.popen(). But I cannot seem to find any free tools.
Winzip has a command line option, but for registered users only. That is bothersome if I want to install the script on other machines.
The same for pkwares zip. At least I cannot seem to find a free version of it.
gzip seems able to do the trick, but I need to install Cygwin, that's also a bother ;-)
Can it really be that there is no free .zip command line tool for Windows, or are my Googling skills just to poor?
Ideally it should just be a single .exe file that I can put in the folder with my script, for easy distribution.
Or is there a more Pythonic approach?
regards Max M
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>>>>> Gerrit Muller <ge***********@ embeddedsystems .nl> (GM) wrote:
GM> did you look at the module zipfile? This seems to be able to everything you
GM> describe?
And otherwise there are always the info-zip free command line utils.
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Private email: P.***********@h ccnet.nl
Gerrit Muller wrote: did you look at the module zipfile? This seems to be able to everything you describe?
Yes i did. But as I read it, it works on single files only.
But after your posting I found: "7.19 tarfile -- Read and write tar
archive files"
So I can just create .tar.gz files instead it seems.
That is just dandy.
Maybe that'll teach me to look better the next time.
I should have known that if it is something I need, it is in the library.
thank Max M
Mike C. Fletcher wrote: Max M wrote: but here's a simple example of using ZipFile for creating zips of directories. You'd want to check for .jpg, .mpg, etceteras and avoid compressing those most likely, but the basics are there.
Thanks!
Max M
Max M wrote:
.... Can it really be that there is no free .zip command line tool for Windows, or are my Googling skills just to poor?
I believe InfoZip is a free command-line zip/unzip utility, but I may be
wrong about that, I normally use cygwin tar & gzip.
Or is there a more Pythonic approach?
Honestly, I wouldn't do this myself, I just tell everyone to get tar and
gzip, but here's a simple example of using ZipFile for creating zips of
directories. You'd want to check for .jpg, .mpg, etceteras and avoid
compressing those most likely, but the basics are there.
HTH,
Mike
import zipfile, os
def toZip( directory, zipFile ):
"""Sample for storing directory to a ZipFile"""
z = zipfile.ZipFile (
zipFile, 'w', compression=zip file.ZIP_DEFLAT ED
)
def walker( zip, directory, files, root=directory ):
for file in files:
file = os.path.join( directory, file )
# yes, the +1 is hacky...
archiveName = file[len(os.path.com monprefix( (root, file) ))+1:]
zip.write( file, archiveName, zipfile.ZIP_DEF LATED )
print file
os.path.walk( directory, walker, z )
z.close()
return zipFile
if __name__ == "__main__":
toZip( 'v:\\temp', 'c:\\temp\\test .zip' )
_______________ _______________ _________
Mike C. Fletcher
Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://members.rogers.com/mcfletch/
Mike C. Fletcher wrote: Max M wrote:
Honestly, I wouldn't do this myself, I just tell everyone to get tar and gzip, but here's a simple example of using ZipFile for creating zips of directories. You'd want to check for .jpg, .mpg, etceteras and avoid compressing those most likely, but the basics are there.
Ok I got around to trying out the tarfile module, and as usual it was
far easier than I would have suspected.
import tarfile
package = 'somedir'
tf = tarfile.open('% s.tar.gz' % package, 'w:gz')
tf.add(package)
tf.close()
So much for using command line tools for this... ;-)
Thanks for all the pointers.
regards Max M
Max,
You must use os.path.walk() along with zipfile to get
what you want. os.walk will walk the directory
tree recursively calling a function that you pass
to it. Inside of that function you can call zipfile
to add each file in that subdirectory to the .ZIP
output file.
-Larry
"Max M" <ma**@mxm.dk> wrote in message
news:40******** *************@d read12.news.tel e.dk... I guess that the best approach is calling a shell tool with something like os.popen(). But I cannot seem to find any free tools.
Winzip has a command line option, but for registered users only. That is bothersome if I want to install the script on other machines.
The same for pkwares zip. At least I cannot seem to find a free version of it.
gzip seems able to do the trick, but I need to install Cygwin, that's also a bother ;-)
Can it really be that there is no free .zip command line tool for Windows, or are my Googling skills just to poor?
Ideally it should just be a single .exe file that I can put in the folder with my script, for easy distribution.
Or is there a more Pythonic approach?
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