On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 20:06:40 -0700 Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The documentation talks about writing files from > disk, but I'm interested in creating these files from within Python > directly in the zip archive. But you have seen writestr(), haven't you? ZipFile.writestr(zinfo_or_arcname, data, compress_type=None, compresslevel=None) Write a file into the archive. The contents is data, which may be either a str or a bytes instance; > So I naively thought I could use the "open" > method of zipfile, giving it a relative path describing the relative > path and file name that I want to then write bytes to. But seems I am > mistaken. No your're not. writestr() and ZipInfo are your friends, unless I haven't understood what you're trying to do. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list