How to compress a folder and all of its sub directories and filesinto a zip file?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Brian van den Broek wrote:

> So, it would appear that compression requires a 3rd party module, not
> included in Python (and not present on my Windows box).

where did you get your Windows Python?  afaik, the zlib module has been
included in all major Python binary distributions since 1.5.2 or so...

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