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Is there any method to compress ZIP files in python?

I have tried creating zip using zipfile and shutil. But, there was not visible file size compression in both the methods. zipfile shutil Is there any way to ensure file compression as well? Thanks. Answer You did zipfile.ZipFile docs state The compresslevel parameter controls the compression level to use when…

How do I decompress a MSZIP block?

I have a compressed file that is a CAB that I wish to extract a file from in Linux. Since there aren’t any native CAB extractors on Linux, I figured I’d try my hand at getting one done. While I’ve seen the MSZIP documentation[0] as well as [1] and [2], I’m having difficulties in decomp…

Python/Pandas create zip file from csv

Is anyone can provide example how to create zip file from csv file using Python/Pandas package? Thank you Answer Use From the docs: compression : string, optional a string representing the compression to use in the output file, allowed values are ‘gzip’, ‘bz2’, ‘xz’, only used when the first argument is a fil…

Create a compress function in Python?

I need to create a function called compress that compresses a string by replacing any repeated letters with a letter and number. My function should return the shortened version of the string. I’ve been able to count the first character but not any others. Ex: Answer Here is a short python implementation…

Why does compression output a larger zip file?

I really don’t understand about python compression because whenever I am trying to compress a folder or file I end up getting a very larger file 5.5 times bigger than the original file. Why does this happen? Is there any way I can compress a folder or a file with python and get an output that’s at…

Python zipfile module doesn’t compress files

I have a problem with compression in Python. I know I should call the ZIP_DEFLATED method when writing to make the zip file compressed, but it does not work for me. I have 3 PDF documents in the C:zip directory. When I run the following code it works just fine: It makes the test.zip file without the compressi…