> Thanks! Works indeed. Strange thing is though, the files created are the > exact size as the original file. So it seems like it is zipping without > compression.
The instantiation of the ZipFile object can take an optional parameter to control the compression. The zipfile module only supports storing (the default as you discovered) and "deflation": f = zipfile.ZipFile(zipfilename, 'w', compression=zipfile.ZIP_DEFLATED) You can read more at http://docs.python.org/lib/zipfile-objects.html -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list