MRAB wrote:
Дамјан Георгиевски wrote:
I'm writing a script that should modify ODF files. ODF files are just
.zip archives with some .xml files, images etc.
So far I open the zip file and play with the xml with lxml.etree, but
I can't replace the files in it.
Is there some recipe that does this ?
You'll have to create a new zip file and copy the files into that.
I agree. In particular, even if there _were_ a good way to replace a
file in a zip, you risk the entire .zip if anything goes wrong
while you make changes like removing a file from the zip (and it
is essentially impossible to replace-in-place a zip element). Since
zips are often used to store collections of files, that is a problem.
You can write multiple versions of a file in the zip, but "which one
wins" becomes problematic (often defined by implementation), and that
approach means that your zip grows with every change.
--Scott David Daniels
scott.dani...@acm.org
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