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Zippping a directory recursively from Python script on Windows

From: Max M <m...@mxm.dk>
Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:54:04 +0100
Mike C. Fletcher wrote:

> Max M wrote:>> Honestly, I wouldn't do this myself, I just tell everyone to get tar and > gzip, but here's a simple example of using ZipFile for creating zips of > directories.  You'd want to check for .jpg, .mpg, etceteras and avoid > compressing those most likely, but the basics are there.


Ok I got around to trying out the tarfile module, and as usual it was 
far easier than I would have suspected.


import tarfile

package = 'somedir'
tf = tarfile.open('%s.tar.gz' % package, 'w:gz')
tf.add(package)
tf.close()


So much for using command line tools for this... ;-)

Thanks for all the pointers.


regards Max M

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