zipfile doesn't compress very good, are there other solutions?

[Peter Otten]

Stef Mientki wrote:

> Peter Otten wrote:
>> Stef Mientki wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I packed all sources with zipfile,
>>> but the compression doesn't seem to be very good.
>>>     
>>
>> If you don't specify the compression, the files are not compressed at
>> all. Just in case you didn't know...
>>   
> .. and would you be willing to tell me how I could set the compression (
> at maximum) ?

According to the documentation (hint, hint) there is only on and off.

zipfile.ZipFile(filename, "w", compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED)

Peter