[Tutor] File compression

[Matthew White]

Hi Magnus,

I would check out the python tarfile module:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-tarfile.html

Looks like it will compress with bzip too!

-mtw

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 12:19:19AM +0200, Magnus Wirström (asdlinux at yahoo.se) wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> I'm starting to python and i need to write a program that are able to 
> compress a high amount of files and directories into a single file that 
> is later going to be transfered  with ftp to a  backup storage server. 
> The data is a quite big amount (over 1.5 gb in 40000 files and 1300 
> directories) so i would like to have high compression like RAR or bz2. 
> What way is the best to approach this? I have looked a bit on zlib but i 
> didn't find a good example that uses it to compress files and 
> directories in one file from python. or perhaps it's simpler to execute 
> a external program, doing the work. I would prefer to use python as much 
> as i can without external apps.
> 
> Does anyone have a idea how this can be made with python.
> 
> Thanks
> Magnus Wirström
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