[python-win32] zip of file using python

[Tim Roberts]

a h wrote:
> thanks... i tried compression as zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED and it works
> fine. Now i used WinRar software to compress a 1.5GB file, it results
> into a 42MB file where as using my script it results into 62 MB file.
> Is it because of different format, if so, is there any winrar lib or
> equivalent lib for python.

WinRar uses a proprietary compression scheme that does a little better
in some cases, but cannot be read by standard tools like unzip.

Seriously, it doesn't really matter, does it?

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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
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