file compression

[Gerrit Muller]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Elaine> The files I'm working with are python modules and LaTeX source
>     Elaine> files, and I need to make them into archives so I can store them
>     Elaine> in my website.
> 
> Check out the zipfile module and class:
> 
>     % pydoc zipfile
>     ...
>     class ZipFile
>      |  Class with methods to open, read, write, close, list zip files.
>      |  
>      |  z = ZipFile(file, mode="r", compression=ZIP_STORED)
>      |  
>      |  file: Either the path to the file, or a file-like object.
>      |        If it is a path, the file will be opened and closed by ZipFile.
>      |  mode: The mode can be either read "r", write "w" or append "a".
>      |  compression: ZIP_STORED (no compression) or ZIP_DEFLATED (requires zlib)
>      ...
> 
> Skip
> 
I use ZipFile exactly as described here to pack my latex and visio 
source files adn publish them on internet at the Gaudi systems 
architecting website: 
<http://www.extra.research.philips.com/natlab/sysarch/>. This works 
great: only a few lines of code are needed.

regards, Gerrit

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