Re: Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-06-01 Thread Chris Lambacher
Skip over the file in question when you first are zipping the directory. Unfortunately you cannot replace or remove a file from a zip without unzipping and rezipping all the contents. -Chris On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:10:53PM +0800, majj81 wrote: hi: Good afternoon. Has this

Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-05-31 Thread majj81
hi: Good afternoon. Has this problem solved in the URL http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2006-April/338849.html. Now I have the same problem to deal with. If you have any suggestion please tell me. Thanks. Johnny Ma come from China 你 不 想 试 试 今 夏 最 “酷” 的 邮 箱 吗 ? 蕴 涵 中 华 传 统

Re: Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-05-01 Thread Scott David Daniels
Edward Elliott wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: ... ... You windows kids and your crazy data formats. There were a few oth OS's than Linux and Windows. Maybe you should call me you crazy Tenex kid. Knuth says, the fastest way to search is to know where to go. -- Zips have locations of files,

Re: Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-05-01 Thread Edward Elliott
Scott David Daniels wrote: Edward Elliott wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: ... ... You windows kids and your crazy data formats. There were a few oth OS's than Linux and Windows. Maybe you should call me you crazy Tenex kid. Windows popularized the zip format, but if you insist: You

Re: Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-05-01 Thread Scott David Daniels
Edward Elliott wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: Edward Elliott wrote: Scott David Daniels wrote: ... ... You windows kids and your crazy data formats. There were a few oth OS's than Linux and Windows. Maybe you should call me you crazy Tenex kid. Windows popularized the zip

Re: Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-05-01 Thread Edward Elliott
Scott David Daniels wrote: Actually I think it was a combination of CP/M and DOS that popularized the ZIP format; essentially the floppy-disk set, for whom the zip format was a godsend. Ah you're right. I just lump all Microsoft OSes under the term 'Windows' now, though I suppose that's

Re: Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-04-30 Thread Scott David Daniels
Roger Miller wrote: First note that zipfile is a plain Python module, so reading Python.../Lib/zipfile.py will reveal all its secrets. I don't think it is possible to replace archive members using the module. You could copy all the files into a new zip file, replacing the ones you want to

Re: Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-04-30 Thread Edward Elliott
Scott David Daniels wrote: It is not currently possible to delete or replace individual elements in a zip file, nor (in all likelihood) would you want to do so. It would require having the zip[ file in a broken state for some time as you copy data from one area of the zip to another. If

Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-04-28 Thread abcd
I have a script which zips up a directory, once it does with that (before it closes the zip file) I want to replace a file that was added to the zip, say Foo.txt. So I tried this... [code] z = zipfile.ZipFile(blah.zip, w) # zip the directory #...

Re: Add file to zip, or replace file in zip

2006-04-28 Thread Roger Miller
First note that zipfile is a plain Python module, so reading Python.../Lib/zipfile.py will reveal all its secrets. I don't think it is possible to replace archive members using the module. You could copy all the files into a new zip file, replacing the ones you want to change as you go. But it