How to use zipfile

[Alex Martelli]

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Jack Lau wrote:

> I am a beginner to learn python. Could anyone tell me how to use zipfile.
> I want to zip a file like "a.txt" and zipped it into "abc.zip". Then how
> can I do ?

import zipfile

zipobj = zipfile.ZipFile('abc.zip', 'w', zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)
zipobj.write('abc.txt')
zipobj.close()


Alex