Zipping Files to user defined Directory

Fri Jul 28 02:27:17 EDT 2006

In <1154055565.502991.252710 at p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
OriginalBrownster wrote:

> I'm very new to python, and I have been using the TurboGears Framework
> to use python to power my application.
> 
> […]
> 
> my problems is that when I want to download that file from the server I
> want to zip the files selected. but how does a user specify where they
> want to save that file?.

Usually the browser asks the user for a target directory.  So that's not
your business.

After the user selected the files you have to zip them on the server, for
instance in a temporary in the `/tmp/` directory and then deliver that
archive to the user.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch