On Friday, October 7, 2016 at 1:05:43 PM UTC-4, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 10/06/2016 10:46 AM, Tim wrote: > > I need to zip up a directory that's about 400mb. > > I'm using shutil.make_archive and I'm getting this response: > > > > Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) > > > > The code is straightforward (and works on other, smaller dirs): > > > > shutil.make_archive(os.path.join(zip_dir, zname), 'zip', tgt_dir) > > > > I guess I could drop the convenience of make_archive and use zipfile but > > that seems to be exactly what make_archive does. > > > > I'm on FreeBSD, python2.7. > > > > Anyone seen this before? > > Does normal the normal zip utility crash also when trying to zip up this > large directory? I'm not familiar with how shutils.make_archive works, > but since it's part of shutils, I suspect it's calling the zip command > as a subprocess, rather than using the Python zip module. Given the > size of your directory I doubt the zip module would work anyway. > > If the zip command works, you could just execute it using popen from > within Python.
I'm now using subprocess and the zip command from FreeBSD, and it's working. So far I can't reproduce a small example of the problem with make_archive. --Tim -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
