[Tutor] Fw: Zip - password protect

[ALAN GAULD]

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 Alan Gauld
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From: James Reynolds <eire1130 at gmail.com>
To: Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 23 August, 2011 20:11:57
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Zip - password protect




On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:

On 23/08/11 19:23, James Reynolds wrote:
>
>I tried that already.
>>
>>that's only to set the default password to read the zip, not to set a
>>pasword (wording is misleading I think)
>>
>>

I'm confused.
>
>Which password are you thinking of?
>
>Is it at the OS level to prevent access to the file
> - in which case the fact that its a zipfile is immaterial.
>Or is it the zipfile's own password? In which case what
>is different from the "default password to read the file"?
>
>
>What exactly are you trying to achieve?
>
>
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I need to password protect a zip file I am creating from within python.

I would rather not have a user open the zip and set the password manually.

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)
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