[Tutor] Zip - password protect

[James Reynolds]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:11 PM, James Reynolds <eire1130 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:
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>> On 8/23/2011 12:31 PM James Reynolds said...
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>>  I'm trying the 7-zip solution, but I can't get past this
>>> error: WindowsError: [Error 2] The system cannot find the file specified
>>>
>>> The line it fails at is here: z = subprocess.call(['7z', 'a', '1234',
>>> '-y', name + '.zip'] + self.file_locs)
>>>
>>> (from now)
>>>
>>> oddly enough, when I open up a python shell, i can run the above just
>>> fine and it creates a .zip file.
>>>
>>> But when I run it from eclipse, the exact thing, I get the error.
>>>
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>> I'd try providing the full path to 7z -- maybe that's why it probably
>> can't find the file specified.
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>> Emile
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> It was a silly problem.
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> I guess Eclipse saves your PATH variables once the program is started,
> instead of referencing the os directly. (I just did print "Current path is
> %s" % os.path.expandvars("$PATH")) and that told me what was going on.
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> Anyway, it's saving the files a .7z which isn't doing me much good. i was
> under the impression i could save them as .zip, if not I'm just going to
> have to password protect manually.
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got it working, had a flag in the wrong spot. Seems to work better than the
Zip module in some ways.

Thanks for the help.
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