On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:18 PM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately very slow - around 8 minutes to zip a 7GB dir using the > command line zip vs. 13 seconds with the python zipfile module.
13 seconds? That sounds wrong for 7GB. I doubt you can deflate that much data that quickly on any modern system. Check if it's actually doing what you think it is. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list