rzed wrote:
> I create a zip file on my WinXP system, using this function:
> ...
> However, WinXP has a "feature" (if that's what it is): if you click
> on a zip file in explorer, an explorer window opens that shows the
> contents of the zip file. If I use WinZip or UltimateZip to create
> the files, this works more-or-less okay, but when I click on the
> zip file Python creates, no content shows at all (just a blank
> explorer window). If I explicitly use one of the other zip-handling
> packages, I can view the python-created file's contents.
>
> Has anyone else observed this? If not, is there something in the
> code that I should change to permit XP to view the contents?
Are you using a name like 'mumble.zip'? Some identification goes
by extension. Other possible tests include trying to make a minimal
zip with a tiny file in it. compare both the binary contents of the
file and any attributes it get through the file system.
Here's an interesting experiment:
1) Make a zip file (original.zip) with one of the apps that "works".
2) Run the following code:
original = open('original.zip', 'rb')
copy = open('copy.zip', 'wb')
copy.write(original.read())
original.close()
copy.close()
3) Now see if copy.zip can be opened by clicking.
--Scott David Daniels
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