Compressing folders in Windows using Python.

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 04:07:11 -0800, sri2097 wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to zip a particular fiolder and place the zipped folder into
> a target folder using python. I have used the following command in
> 'ubuntu'.
> 
>     zip_command = 'zip -qr %s %s' % (target, ' '.join(source))
> 
> I execute this using os.command(zip_command). It works fine...
> 
> But when I run this script in Windows XP, I get an error while
> executing the above zip command. 

Would you like to tell us what error you get?

No no, I'll just guess... your disk is full... am I close?

*wink*

> What command is there to zip files in Windows? Or is there any other problem ?

What happens if you call up a Windows command prompt and type zip at the
prompt?



-- 
Steven.