Problems with zipfile module...

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 10 05:28:27 EST 2001


"Christophe Prevost" <ommadawn at club-internet.fr> wrote in message
news:93ha6j$ca6$1 at reader1.imaginet.fr...
    [snip]
>    backup = zipfile.ZipFile(zip, "w", "ZIP_DEFLATED")

Change to:
    backup = zipfile.ZipFile(zip, "w", zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

i.e., the option is NOT to be passed as a string, but rather
as a numeric 'constant' which is defined in module zipfile.


Alex






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