Compressing folders in Windows using Python.

[Heiko Wundram]

Heiko Wundram wrote:
> That's basically because there is no commandline builtin for zipping up
> files on Windows, and I don't know of WinZIP or any of the InfoZIP derived
> GUIs installing a command-line zipper.

btw. the zip command isn't builtin on Unix either. It's only available if
you installed the corresponding InfoZIP package(s). I know pretty much
every Linux-distribution comes preinstalled with it (because of stuff like
ark, a KDE-frontend for archivers, requiring it), but you shouldn't rely on
that either.

--- Heiko.