Compressing folders in Windows using Python.

[bren[at]gillatt.org]

Heiko Wundram wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>>>But when I run this script in Windows XP, I get an error while
>>>executing the above zip command.
>>
>>Would you like to tell us what error you get?
> 
> 
> I presume the error he's seeing is something along the line of:
> 
> "zip: Bad command or filename."
> 
> 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.
> 
> What might help you though (and keep you platform-independent):
> 
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/lib/module-zipfile.html
> 
> --- Heiko.

Go and get something like 7-ZIP and put a path environment variable in.