zlib and zip archives

Gordon McMillan gmcm at hypernet.com
Wed Jan 5 08:51:37 EST 2000


Anne writes:
> 
> It sounds stupid but I really don't have a clue:
> 
> How do you use zlib to create a zip archive using the pkzip
> format?  I looked through the documentation, it seems no where
> indicates that it supports the zip archive format?

You don't. zlib just handles compression. You could check 
out ftp://ftp.interet.com/pub/pylib.html.

- Gordon




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