Re: number of different lines in a file

2006-05-18 Thread pac
A generator expression can "share" the parenthesis of a function call. The syntax is explained in PEP 289, which is also in "What's new" in the Python 2.4 docs. Nice line of code! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Script to make Windows XP-readable ZIP file

2006-05-18 Thread pac
I'm preparing to distribute a Windows XP Python program and some ancillary files, and I wanted to put everything in a .ZIP archive. It proved to be inordinately difficult and I thought I would post my solution here. Is there a better one? Suppose you have a set of files in a directory c:\a\b an