[Tutor] File compression

[Dave Kuhlman]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:27:47PM -0700, Matthew White wrote:
> 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!

Also look at the following:

- http://docs.python.org/lib/module-zipfile.html
- http://docs.python.org/lib/module-zlib.html
- http://docs.python.org/lib/module-gzip.html
- http://docs.python.org/lib/module-bz2.html

Dave

> 
> -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. 

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