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On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 14:25:50 +0000 (UTC), Ulli Horlacher
<framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> declaimed the following:

>(My first posting seems to got lost)
>
>I want to create a zip file within a Python 2.7 program on windows.
>
>My code:
>
>  cmd = ['7za.exe','a','-tzip',archive] + files
>  status = subprocess.call(cmd)
>
	My first thought would be...

	WHY spawn an OS dependent subprocess...

	Python has a zipfile library that is portable between OS. Along with
libraries for gzip, bzip2, and tarfiles...

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