simple python script to zip files

[Tim Chase]

> Thanks! Works indeed. Strange thing is though, the files created are the 
> exact size as the original file. So it seems like it is zipping without 
> compression. 


The instantiation of the ZipFile object can take an optional
parameter to control the compression.  The zipfile module only
supports storing (the default as you discovered) and "deflation":

  f = zipfile.ZipFile(zipfilename, 'w',
	compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

You can read more at

http://docs.python.org/lib/zipfile-objects.html

-tkc