How to use zipfile

[Jack Lau]

Thank you very much!

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> I use it in this way:
>
> import zipfile
> archive = zipfile.ZipFile( "abc.zip", "w", zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED )
> source = "a.txt"
> destination = source
> archive.write( source, destination )
> archive.close( )
>
> I'd prefer to create a "virtual directory" in the root of the zipfile
> (with destination = os.path.join( "abc", source ). Archives without
> this virtual root directory sometimes caused trouble to me. I unzipped
> an archive and contaminated the current directory with a lot of files
> that I expected to be in a subdir that has been named like the
> archive...
>
>
> "Jack Lau" <jack98lau at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:<3dc8c6b3$1 at shknews01>...
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am a beginner to learn python. Could anyone tell me how to use
zipfile. I
> > want to zip a file like "a.txt" and zipped it into "abc.zip". Then how
can I
> > do ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!