[Zope] Zip a file on the fly

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 13:58:07 +0100


> Tom Deprez wrote:
> 
> Now I would like the user to be able to download a complete folder, just by
> clicking it on the browser. The best way to let the user download the whole
> folder is (I think) to first zip the folder and then let the user download the
> zip file. 

Make sure you cache that zip file on the server so you're not wastign loads of
processro tiem regenerating it all the time! ;-)

> Now, are there people who know of a good python library for zipping a file
> (.zip format)
> Or do people know if it is possible to download a complete folder?

import zipfile
(python 2.1+)

cheers,

Chris

PS: You're HTML mailing ATM ;-S