library.zip and 7zip

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Tue Jul 6 06:18:12 EDT 2004


Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) wrote:

> Ah - I missed the -tzip option :( Hmm - so it *should* work -
> technically.
> 
> Jaco - are you *absolutely* positive that you are using -tzip? Just in
> case it's a simple mistake (typo, etc).

Maybe trying to read the file with Python's own zipfile
module would be a good idea.  I assume that the import
mechanism basically uses the same (de)compression engine
(ie. zlib.pyd).  If it can't read it, then obviously
-tzip or no, the problem is with 7z compression.

-Peter



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