Jean-Claude Wippler wrote:
Ouch - what's wrong with zip archives?
With all due respect - I sincerely hope you will reconsider and alter your code to work with zip files. It's probably a small adjustment?
OK, I now have a new module "zipfile" which reads and writes ZIP files. It is written in Python and has been tested on Windows and Linux. I tested it with WinZip and found that the files it creates are read OK with WinZip, and WinZip files are read OK with zipfile. So I am withdrawing my Python archive file format, and re-writing all my stuff using zipfile. It should all be done in a week. Basically everything works fine. But there are some problems. Python seems to lack a CRC-32 function, so I wrote one in Python. It is slow. We need to add a CRC-32 function to some Python built-in module that it always present, like md5 or binascci. The zlib module is not necessarily present. I can't seem to get WinZip to record a partial path. That is, I want the ./Lib/test package to have these ZIP paths: test/__init__.pyc test/testall.pyc ... but WinZip creates files with either no path at all or the fully specified path. Am I missing something? Do all other ZIP tools do this too? JimA Return-Path: <owner-python-dev@python.org> Delivered-To: python-dev@dinsdale.python.org Received: from python.org (parrot.python.org [132.151.1.90]) by dinsdale.python.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDA11CDB9 for <python-dev@dinsdale.python.org>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:21:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from cnri.reston.va.us (ns.CNRI.Reston.VA.US [132.151.1.1] (may be forged)) by python.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA06423 for <python-dev@python.org>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:21:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from kaluha.cnri.reston.va.us (kaluha.cnri.reston.va.us [132.151.7.31]) by cnri.reston.va.us (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA04774 for <python-dev@python.org>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:21:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from eric.cnri.reston.va.us (eric.cnri.reston.va.us [10.27.10.23]) by kaluha.cnri.reston.va.us (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA04556 for <python-dev@python.org>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:22:34 -0500 (EST) Received: from CNRI.Reston.VA.US (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eric.cnri.reston.va.us (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA18858 for <python-dev@python.org>; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:22:34 -0500 (EST) Resent-Message-Id: <199912131522.KAA18858@eric.cnri.reston.va.us> Message-Id: <199912131522.KAA18858@eric.cnri.reston.va.us> To: "James C. Ahlstrom" <jim@interet.com> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Re: [Distutils] Questions about distutils strategy In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:50:11 EST." <385507A3.9F6AAF0F@interet.com> References: <000301bf4206$b39e5b80$36a2143f@tim> <384FC47A.BB4DA517@interet.com> <384FDAF5.C25C447C@equi4.com> <38510254.ED15D32B@interet.com> <385507A3.9F6AAF0F@interet.com> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:22:12 -0500 From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Resent-Cc: python-dev@python.org Resent-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:22:34 -0500 Resent-From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Sender: python-dev-admin@python.org Errors-To: python-dev-admin@python.org X-BeenThere: python-dev@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 1.2 (experimental) Precedence: bulk List-Id: Python core developers <python-dev.python.org>
OK, I now have a new module "zipfile" which reads and writes ZIP files. It is written in Python and has been tested on Windows and Linux. I tested it with WinZip and found that the files it creates are read OK with WinZip, and WinZip files are read OK with zipfile. So I am withdrawing my Python archive file format, and re-writing all my stuff using zipfile. It should all be done in a week.
Ah, good! (This saves me the trouble of cleaning up our own zip code :-)
Basically everything works fine. But there are some problems.
Python seems to lack a CRC-32 function, so I wrote one in Python. It is slow. We need to add a CRC-32 function to some Python built-in module that it always present, like md5 or binascci. The zlib module is not necessarily present.
I can't seem to get WinZip to record a partial path. That is, I want the ./Lib/test package to have these ZIP paths: test/__init__.pyc test/testall.pyc ... but WinZip creates files with either no path at all or the fully specified path. Am I missing something? Do all other ZIP tools do this too?
Unclick the "Save Extra Folder Info" and then drag the *parent* folder into the archive. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)