[Tutor] Zip-ing files/folders - collecting opinions

[Simon Wittber (Maptek)]

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>I am trying to put together somethin' littl' in Python=20
>that would do archiving of potentially large files and/
>or large folder structures on Windows platform.=20

I'm not sure my idea or approach is any better, but it is quite nifty!

It's a small program which zips up a directory structure into an python
program. You then run the generated python program to expand the tree.

Have a look, you might get some more ideas.

Sw.

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