problem zipping a text file with zlib

[Steve Holden]

"DeepBleu" <DeepBleu at DeepBleu.org> wrote in message
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> "Joachim Kaeber" <joachim.kaeber at imk.fraunhofer.de> wrote in message
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> > DeepBleu wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, I am using zipfile (from zipfile import ZipFile).  Sorry I stated
> zlib.
> > > Still with one text file in particular, WinZip reports "missing 2
bytes"
> > > DeepBleu
> >
> > is the script run on Windows? If yes, is the zipfile opened
> > in binary mode?
> >
> The script is running on Sun Solaris with Python 2.1
>
> >>>from zipfile import ZipFile
> >>>zip_archive = ZipFile("text1.zip", "w", 8)
> >>>zip_archive.write(PathToTextFile, os.path.split(PathToTextFile)[1])
> >>>zip_archive.close()
>
> Before starting this process, I am running Unix2DOS on the text file:
> Unix2Dos TextFile TextFile
>
> Reason is that the zip file will be opened later in windows (using WinZip
> for example).
> Hope this answers your question,

Do you close the zipfile after you've finished writing it?

regards
 Steve