August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
366 pages
10h 14m
English
Content preview from Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook
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Zipping a directory
Archive files are a good way to distribute whole directories as if they were a single file and to reduce the size of the distributed files.
Python has built-in support for creating ZIP archive files, which can be leveraged to compress a whole directory.