>From what I understand, Winzip uses their own proprietary version of a Zip format. That means that you will only be able open those archives with Winzip. (IOW, you are locked in)
I think someone mentioned having developed a Python module for the 7zip fomat, but I may be wrong. In any case, you could simply write a wrapper over the command line version of 7zip and your problem would be solved. There is a Linux version as well. (http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/) bennie wrote: > Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou wrote: > > AFAIR there is a 4GiB (or 2GiB) size limit applying both to files added to zip > > and to the total size of the zip file. This limit comes from the zip file > > specification (32 bit offsets). > > Can it be that you are creating a zip file that its total size exceeds the > > limit? > That is possible. > But with Winzip program it can. > How come that is with ZipFile not works -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
