On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Stef Mientki<stef.mien...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > I want to make a distro for Ubuntu, > and run under Windows. > > I packed all sources with zipfile, > but the compression doesn't seem to be very good. > > If run the created file through 7zip, it becomes anout half the size.
Are you sure it's compressing it as a .zip? I know it has its own incompatible .7z format which tends compress things a bit better. > Is there a way to accomplish the same task with zipfile ( the documentation > isn't overwhelming). You can use the `tarfile` module's bz2 compression option; bzip2 tends to compress slightly better than zip. tarfile docs -- http://docs.python.org/library/tarfile.html Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
