Re: memory error with zipfile module

[Hari Sekhon]

Fredrik Lundh wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: I take it that it's still a work in progress to be able to pythonify everything, and until then we're just gonna have to rely on shell and those great C coded coreutils and stuff like that. Ok, I'm rather fond of Bash+coreutils, highest ratio of code lines to work I've ever seen.... it's the real strength of Linux. Shame about Windows... you make very little sense. </F> how so, this is effectively what we do when we run os.system(). Usually people are running system commands on unix like machines using coreutils written in C to do things that are either difficult or near impossible to do in python... I've seen people using everything from zip to touch, either out of laziness or out of the fact it wouldn't work very well in python, this zip case is a good example. Sometimes when doing system scripts, they're effectively Bash scripting, but taking longer to do in many more lines of code cos it's in python. That makes very little sense.

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